Praise Reform and Start the Litigation?
- 2 December 1993
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 329 (23) , 1735-1736
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199312023292313
Abstract
A tired old lawyer's joke retitles almost any complex reform statute the “Lawyers' and Expert Witnesses' Relief Act of 199 .” To avoid this fate, a statute instituting comprehensive health care reform will have to address a host of difficult legal issues that lie just beneath the surface of President Bill Clinton's proposal for reform. Indeed, although the President's plan is substantively and structurally complex, it is a model of simplicity in comparison with the legal questions it raises. What are the most important legal problems, and how should they be resolved?Remedies for DisputesThe basic cost-containment strategy of . . .Keywords
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