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Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government by Theda Skocpol

Boomerang by Theda Skocpol, a professor of government and sociology at Harvard University, is subtitled, “Clinton’s Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics.” And indeed, this book is about politics, not about the reality of what went on in those crucial years. One comes out with the impression that the book […]

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Guns: Who Should Have Them? by David B. Kopel (editor)

Each chapter in this powerful volume will help the readers cut through the rhetoric and sensationalism that frequently surrounds the gun control debate. Written by the leading experts in law, criminology and medicine, this volume includes such headings as “Arms and the Woman”; “Doctors and Guns,” further rebutting the arguments that guns are a public

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Doctors and the Law by Hon. Hiller B. Zobel and Stephen N. Rous, MD

This book is a thinly-veiled attempt to defend the status quo of litigation-on-demand — “better the devil you know than the one you don’t.” Essentially, it advises physicians to accept the system and conform to the rigors of legal imposition when caught in the net of a medical lawsuit. It defends contingency fees, the system

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Public Policy by Lawsuit — No One Is Safe

In a 1993 two-part article at a height of the liability crisis, particularly with medical “malpractice” lawsuits,(1) I wrote that rampant litigation had become a malevolent trend threatening to unravel the fabric of society and individuals. The trend has recently cranked up to high gear as attorney-litigators have found yet new venues for enacting disruptive

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