This volume examines state regulations for hazard warnings--for foods, drugs, and medical devices--and demonstrates why a federal warnings approach would be preferable.

In the past, the individual using medical care was generally referred to as the "patient", with this word's connotations of an individual who was passive, forbearing and accepting. The emerging view is to look at the individual using medical care as a consumer, with this word's very different...

That paper extensively surveys the research on the savings due to managed care and quantifies the costs of eliminating specific managed care practices in terms of both dollars and in terms of increasing the number of uninsured consumers.

Increased concentration in the hospital industry has been a focus of recent antitrust review of the current wave of hospital mergers. As argued by Demsetz, the potential danger that increased concentration imposes on economic efficiency in any industry turns upon whether the change in...

Using the simple model of Comanor and Frech (1985), I show that vertical mergers and exclusive dealing contracts are not behaviorally equivalent.

This volume examines state regulations for hazard warnings--for foods, drugs, and medical devices--and demonstrates why a federal warnings approach would be preferable.