Dworkin's prudent insurance ideal: two revisions.

Ideal Interpretation : The Theories of Zhu Xi and Ronald Dworkin

Egalitarianism, option luck and insurance markets

It is argued here that individuals should never be held responsible for being lucky or unlucky, so that the notion of option luck is prima facie unacceptable. But applying the Conditional Equality and Egalitarian Equivalence criteria to problems of allocation under risk provides a rationale for policies which are sometimes similar to policies based on the notion of option luck. Dworkin’s concep...

Why the Medical Malpractice Crisis Persists Even When Malpractice Insurance Premiums Fall.

Wanami and Soraya Sabri for their research assistance and thanks also to Tasha Levenson for her revisions and to Trish McLaughlin for her help in preparing the figures.

Commentary Hercules , Herbert , and Amar : the Trouble with Intratextualism

Do the provisions of the Constitution fit together in a coherent scheme? Should judges interpret the Constitution as if they do? Akhil Amar's recent article, Intratextualism, 1 answers "yes" to both of these questions. Amar takes a familiar canon of statutory construction that similar terms appearing in different parts of a statute should generally be interpreted to have similar meanings and ex...

Health Insurance Status as a Barrier to Ideal Cardiovascular Health for U.S. Adults: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)

BACKGROUND Little is known about the association between cardiovascular (CV) health and health insurance status. We hypothesized that U.S. adults without health insurance coverage would have a lower likelihood of ideal cardiovascular health. METHODS AND RESULTS Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data from 2007-2010, we examined the relationship between health insu...