American Health Care And The Law—We Need To Talk!

More than most industries, American health care is in the uncomfortable position of carrying out its core mission—making people healthy—in a legal environment featuring irrational rules and doctrines, conflicting paradigms, multiple policy-making authorities, and inconsistent public policies. Moreover, without a single entity exercising plenary authority over health care law and policy, the legal system cannot easily set a constant, clear, or wisely charted course.