A Study on Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding Health Practitioner Pro Bono Services

Ms, Khan; Clt,; Dpt,; Lori,

doi:10.18785/ojhe.0602.01

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Policy Challenges1

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2011

2020

Publication Types

Select...

Article2

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent2

Authors

Journals

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 6 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…64 Almost 40% of physicians presently are involved in volunteer medical services. 65 However, for the following reasons, serious impediments to universal access will persist, and indeed worsen, under the PPACA and the ability of individual physicians to personally contribute to the removal of those impediments by accepting and treating all presenting patients will continue to be very constrained.…”

Section: Policy Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conscripted Physician Services and the Public's Health

Kapp¹

2011

J. Law. Med. Ethics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The prevailing wisdom is that improving patient access to physician services is essential to promoting the public's health. This article suggests that, ironically, one effect of the 2010 federal health reform legislation may be to discourage physicians from serving the statute's intended beneficiaries, thereby exacerbating the access problem. The article examines several potential approaches to addressing this problem, comparing - from legal and policy perspectives - strategies based on legal conscription of physician services versus strategies that instead would rely on incentivizing physician participation in serving otherwise access-impaired populations. The author argues in favor of the latter approach rather than one based on use of governmental force.

show abstract

Section: Policy Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%