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Malpractice & Liability

Title: Groping for the reins: ERISA, HMO malpractice, and

Citation: American Journal of Law & Medicine, Spring 1996 22 n1 p7-50

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Abstract: Enterprise liability would be an effective way of imposing

liability for health care malpractice in view of the case

management power third party payors and health maintenance

organizations have acquired. Enterprise liability is the

conceptual basis for the American idea that the free market

will be the source for filling all human needs. ERISA's

preemption of health care plan liability is outdated, impedes

competition and robs consumers of remedies they deserve. ERISA

should be amended to include enterprise liability for medical

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Full Text COPYRIGHT American Society of Law & Medicine Inc. 1996

As Canada approaches the end of its first decade of government-run

health care with universal coverage and controlled costs, the majority

in the United States Congress has proposed repealing the federal

guarantee of health coverage to poor and disabled persons embodied in

Medicaid.(1) This somber turn in the history of American health care

comes only a few years after an optimistic President Clinton resurrected

the efforts of Presidents Truman and Nixon to establish universal

coverage. Clinton's own party quashed his Health Security Act prior to

any formal debate. Characterizing the plan as Byzantine government that

would limit choice, health insurance companies, the very industry

President Clinton tried to accommodate by rejecting the Canadian model,

opposed the plan.(2) Ironically, the possibility of such legislation

accelerated the movement by health care insurers and other large-scale

payers to assume control of heal...

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