In keeping with the Symposium theme, quot;The Mass Media's Influence on Health Law and Policy,quot; this essay is … legal and policy issues surrounding the private health insurance system, and to provide some practical advice for others … interested in doing the same. Specific topics include the erosion of employer-sponsored health insurance, continuation of private …

Traditionally, debates over American health coverage institutions have relied on vocabulary and concepts from the world … ties to the health insurance contract. Missing from that conversation are the interests of each individual's friends and … individual's health coverage status, illnesses, and medical interventions. These burdens undermine equality of opportunity and …

mental health services include social stigma, systemic factors like fragmented services, shortage of pediatric psychiatrists …, insufficient training of primary physicians, lack of integration of mental health services with primary care facilities, and … underequipped community resources. In addition, children's mental health is susceptible to external environmental risk factors and …

changed with health and retirement benefits during the past three decades -- the first generation of the Employee Retirement … staff, and representatives from academia, interest groups, and labor to examine public policy issues affecting health and …