Fordham Urban Law Journal back issues from April 2008:
Universal health care in Massachusetts: setting the standard for national reform.
Apr 01, 2008; ... I. INTRODUCTION Health care reform in the United States has proven to be one of the most complex challenges facing lawmakers and private citizens today. Although there is widespread agreement that the system is in disarray and in dire need of fundamental reform, the core ...
Debilitating Alexander v. Choate: "meaningful access" to health care for people with disabilities.
Apr 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Since 1985, Alexander v. Choate (1) has stood for the proposition that financially-motivated limitations and cutbacks in state-provided health care services imposing significant negative impacts on people with disabilities are very difficult to challenge ...
Positive health: the human right to health care under the New York State Constitution.
Apr 01, 2008; ... I. INTRODUCTION In his first State of the State address, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer recognized the urgent need to "reform our health care system." (1) He explained that "when 2.8 million New Yorkers can't afford health insurance, that affects not only them and their ...
A civic republican view of hospital closures and community health planning.
Apr 01, 2008; ... I. INTRODUCTION Listening to today's news, it is impossible not to hear someone call for immediate health care reform. The uninsured, rising health care costs, the diabetes epidemic, the financial instability of health care facilities--these are just some of the issues that have ...
The healthy Washington initiative: blue-ribbon process, red-herring result.
Apr 01, 2008; ... "Quality, affordable health care is a right, not a privilege, and the Healthy Washington Initiative will make changes that bring us another step closer to serving all Washingtonians." (1) INTRODUCTION In 2006, empowered by the perceived public support for change in ...
No scrutiny whatsoever: deconstitutionalization of poverty law, dual rules of law, & dialogic default.
Apr 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Poverty Law in the United States subsists within a constitutional framework that constructs a separate and unequal rule of law for poor people. Across constitutional doctrines, poor people suffer diminished protection, with their claims for liberty and equality ...
Loose standards, tight lips: why easy access to client data can undermine homeless management information systems.
Apr 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Although homelessness emerged as a widespread and widely recognized social problem nearly three decades ago, researchers, politicians, and homeless service providers nationwide still lack a reliable source of data on the size and demographics of the homeless ...