Health Law Concentration

The Health Law and Policy Seminar examines how the Constitution, statutes and the common law determine access to health care, regulate the quality of patient care and resolve disputes among doctors, hospitals, and patients. Seminar coverage includes:

• Medicaid, Medicare and other government programs guaranteeing access to medical care
  
  
• Public policy and theoretical issues related to reforming the U.S. health care system
  
  
• Regulation of the quality of health care, including medical malpractice and professional licensing and discipline
  
  
• Patients' rights and bioethical issues, including informed consent, confidentiality, the right to die, physician-assisted suicide, reproductive rights, assisted reproduction, and the rationing of high-cost procedures
  
  
• Federal and state regulation of private health insurance and managed care organizations
  
  
• The role of professionals, both doctors and lawyers, in our society