Professor Henry Greely views Richard Epstein's Mortal Peril as a provocative, but ultimately failed work. It provokes with both its sharp analysis and its pointed language. Yet it fails in its goal of demonstrating the useful application of Epstein's first principles to the problems of access to...

The public health and development communities understand clearly the need to integrate anti-poverty efforts with HIV/AIDS programs. This article reports findings about the impact of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process on Malawi’s National HIV/AIDS Strategic Framework (NSF). In...

Background: Hong Kong as a developed economy in Asia still lags behind other advanced economies of the OECD in medicines regulation and the promotion of pharmacists’ professionalism. It lacks a significant local drug industry, and has only recently placed priority on cost-containment measures...

Over the past several years, "obesity activists," as well as many disability rights and critical legal theorists, have increasingly argued for the inclusion of obesity as a "disability" under anti-discrimination law, particularly the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). At the same time,...

I trace the evolution of ethical approaches to health policy in the United States and examine a number of critical unresolved issues pertaining to the current set of frameworks. Several themes emerge. First, fair procedures claim more attention than substantive and procedural principles. Second,...

This article presents a framework to analyze federalism based on enactment, implementation, and enforcement institutions. The framework provides a mechanism to determine whether a particular public policy should be conducted at a state or federal level, by examining economies and diseconomies of...

Health insurance mandates require health insurers to provide coverage for particular health services or illnesses. This paper examines how various state health insurance mandates influence premiums and enrollment in health insurance plans. Contrary to previous studies that compare premiums...

This paper uses data from the 2006 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance (BRFSS) System and information on state health insurance regulation tabulated by the Center for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI) to examine the impact of health limitations on the factors determining whether a working-age...

The United States has state of the art technology and world renowned expertise in medical treatment, yet in terms of healthcare it shows a dramatically poor performance in relation to the other industrialized countries. This situation is surprising, since one would expect that a free market...

The Medicaid program, which provides health insurance coverage to low income women and children, has expanded dramatically over the past decade. This expansion provides a "natural laboratory" for learning about the effect of public health insurance eligibility on insurance coverage, health...