JAMA Commentary Examines Legal Barriers to Improving Health Care Delivery System
"Legal Reforms Necessary To Promote Delivery System Innovation," Journal of the American Medical Association: The JAMA commentary by Timothy Stoltzfus Jost of the Washington and Lee School of Law and Ezekiel Emanuel of NIH examines how the current legal environment has created significant barriers to improving the U.S. health care delivery system. According to the authors, multiple and conflicting laws at the federal and state levels, as well as the legal "morass" that governs public and private programs, prevent experimentation and innovation in the care delivery system. They add that necessary reforms could be facilitated by a federal commission with authority to permit innovations that are time-limited and subject to periodic evaluations (Stoltzfus Jost/Emanuel, JAMA, 6/4).
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