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Making a Federal Case Out of Health Care

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  • The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: More Than We Bargained for, and Less

    By Tom Miller PDF
  • Just Gotta Learn from the Wrong Things You Done

    By Dick Armey PDF
  • HIPAA on Privacy: Its Unintended and Intended Consequences

    By Richard A. Epstein PDF
  • Regulations of Bad Things that Almost Never Happen, but Could: HIPAA and the Individual Insurance Market

    By Mark V. Pauly PDF
  • HIPAA’s Small-Group Access Laws: Win, Loss, or Draw?

    By Mark A. Hall PDF
  • A Regulatory Bypass Operation

    By Tom Miller PDF
  • Defined Contribution: From Managed Care to Patient-Managed Care

    By E. Haavi Morreim PDF
  • HIPAA and the Criminalization of American Medicine

    By Grace-Marie Turner PDF
  • HIPAA and Health Care Fraud: An Empirical Perspective

    By David A. Hyman PDF

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