Historical and Political Background of Federal Health Care Legislation

Political evolution of federal health care regulation.

Although federal regulation of health care faces cultural obstacles and skepticism among policymakers, it has grown markedly over the past two decades. Beginning in the 1970s with decentralized programs aimed at regulating provider behavior (Health Systems Agencies and certificate of need) and budgets (state rate setting), health care regulation grew more centralized in the 1980s as federal pol...

Litigating Federal Health Care Legislation and the Interstices of Procedure,

from historical facts to geo-political realities: relation between turkey and armenia ( 1915 – 2010)

armenias geopolitics and its historical experience have had a determining impact on the character of its foreign policy .present-day armenia is a small, landlocked country with _11,620 square miles area armenias landlocked nature makes it dependent on the benevolence of its neighbors for access to the outside world a fact that gives it a sense of isolation and vulnerability. as it was indic...

Federal prosecution of health care fraud.

Volume 94 No. 9 September 2011 was sentenced to168 months in prison and ordered to pay $9.5 million in restitution for his part in the five-year long scheme. In December, the parent company of two New Jersey hospitals paid $7.9 million to resolve allegations that the hospitals wrongfully obtained excessive outlier payments. In March of 2010, a cancer center in Florida agreed to pay $12 million ...

Evolutionary, historical and political economic perspectives on health and disease.

The origin and rise of social inequalities that are a feature of the post-Neolithic society play a major role in the pattern of disease in prehistoric and contemporary populations. We use the concept of epidemiological transition to understand changing ecological relationships between humans, pathogens and other disease insults. With the Paleolithic period as a baseline, we begin with ecologica...