Health Care Law and Policy

This extensive revision presents health care law in the context of an evolving industry trying to resolve the difficult trade-offs inherent in health care economies. The subject is unfolded by dramatizing the policy assumptions & paradigms underlying legal doctrine & statutory rules & by tracking the historic changes that have occurred in the organization & financing of health services in recent years, & changes that are continuing today. Without sacrificing close attention to legal rules, the text challenges the student to view the legal environment of the health care industry as a totality & to understand how it advances or retards progress toward making the health care marketplace responsive to consumer needs & preferences & toward achieving efficiency in the allocation of resources to the health care enterprise.Havighurst, Clark C. is the author of 'Health Care Law and Policy', published 1990 under ISBN 9780882777177 and ISBN 0882777173.