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Why healthcare reform may unleash a litigation explosion
1Capital University Law School, Columbus, OH.
Postgraduate Medicine
|November 15, 1994
Abstract:
One aspect of healthcare reform that has been largely overlooked is the expansion of antidiscrimination laws far beyond the traditional grounds of race, sex, age, and religion. Added to this is a provision giving individuals the broad right to sue over "government-guaranteed" medical treatment. What are the implications of such sweeping reforms? According to law professor Bradley A. Smith, a new wave of litigation is a real possibility.