Teaching the Law of American Health Care

11 Pages Posted: 30 Jun 2017

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Elizabeth Weeks

University of Georgia School of Law

Nicole Huberfeld

Boston University School of Law; Boston University - School of Public Health

Kevin Outterson

Boston University School of Law

Date Written: June 29, 2017

Abstract

In writing our casebook, The Law of American Health Care, we started from scratch, rethinking the topics to include and themes around which to organize them. Like many health law professors, we were schooled in and continued to propound the traditional themes of cost, quality, access, and choice. While those concerns certainly pervade many areas of health care law, our casebook's overarching themes emphasize different issues, namely: federalism, individual rights, fiduciary relationships, the modem administrative state, and market regulation. These new themes, we believe, better capture the range of issues and topics essential for the new generation of health lawyers. When we set out to write The Law of American Health Care, our objectives were threefold: (1) simplify; (2) emphasize primary sources; and (3) reorganize the classic state-based law approach to "Law and Medicine" to reflect the dominance of federal law in the post-Affordable Care Act (ACA) era. In this essay, we will discuss not only how we went about achieving these goals but also how the topical nature of health care law can be addressed through the use of themes, and how themes can facilitate learning on the fly when health care law changes, as it inevitably does.

Keywords: health care law, teaching, law school, legal education, Affordable Care Act

JEL Classification: I20, I21, I23, K23, K39

Suggested Citation

Leonard, Elizabeth and Huberfeld, Nicole and Outterson, Kevin, Teaching the Law of American Health Care (June 29, 2017). St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 61, 2017, University of Georgia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-19, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2995045

Elizabeth Leonard (Contact Author)

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HOME PAGE: http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/elizabeth-weeks-leonard

Nicole Huberfeld

Boston University School of Law ( email )

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United States

Boston University - School of Public Health ( email )

715 Albany Street
Boston, MA 02118
United States

Kevin Outterson

Boston University School of Law ( email )

765 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
United States

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