Federal Regulation of Quarantine

Fetal experimentation and federal regulation.

Reforming federal quarantine law in the wake of Andrew Speaker: the "tuberculosis traveler".

Political evolution of federal health care regulation.

Although federal regulation of health care faces cultural obstacles and skepticism among policymakers, it has grown markedly over the past two decades. Beginning in the 1970s with decentralized programs aimed at regulating provider behavior (Health Systems Agencies and certificate of need) and budgets (state rate setting), health care regulation grew more centralized in the 1980s as federal pol...

Regulating the Regulators Reforming Federal Regulation

First we had market failure; so we tried regulating markets. Then we had regulatory failure; so we tried reforming regulation. Now, it seems, we have "reform failure." That, at least, is the message of a recent book on regulatory reform written by Robert Litan and William Nordhaus, based on their experience as "watchdogs of the regulatory process" in President Carter's Council of Economic Advis...

Etymologia: Quarantine