Download This PaperA Population Health Framework for Teaching Health Law
Saint Louis University Law Journal, vol. 6, no. 3
11 Pages Posted: 6 Apr 2020
Date Written: 2017
Abstract
Health law can seem unruly as a field of law, and this makes teaching a survey course on the subject very challenging. A health law survey is unlike, for example, a course on contract law that can be organized around the form of a contractual agreement. Likewise, it is different from a survey of constitutional law, which can be framed by the legal document it studies, or an administrative law course, which is structured around federal or state codes of administrative procedure.
Health law does not have a defining form or code on which to base a survey course. Certainly there are major federal statutes unique to health law: Medicare, Medicaid, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and—of course—the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Yet, a course based only on these federal statutes would not adequately represent the field.
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Robert A. Gatter (Contact Author)
Saint Louis University School of Law ( email )
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