Blue Cross: What Went Wrong?
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This book is a collective effort of the Health Law Project of the University of Pennsylvania. The Project began in the fall of 1970 with a grant from OEO to pay the salaries of four and a half lawyers, a community organizer, a sociologist, a librarian, secretaries, and several students. Our purpose has been to gain an understanding of how health care is delivered and financed in America and to figure out ways in which consumers can have a larger bice in determining the nature of the health services they receive. In the three years of its existence the Project has produced scholarly analyses of major aspects of health services delivery; some examples are studies of emergency room services, a report on health care and conditions in Pennsylvania’s prisons, and a study of class differences in the provision of hospital care. We have prepared teaching materials for use in laws schools to train lawyers to represent health consumers and have encouraged the development of such training. We have done original empirical research. We have developed models for organizing consumers and providing advocacy services by doing such work and analyzing and disseminating the knowledge that we gained. In the past we have gone to court and to state and federal agencies to advocate changes that seemed sensible and legally required. In all of this we have tried to work collectively, with students, lawyers, and other professional and lay people (from members of our Board to member of our secretarial staff) making judgments as to what work should have priority, evaluating work that is in process, encouraging and supporting one another. We have also tried to combine scholarly detachment with the definite point of view that social institutions should be made accountable to the people who use and finance their services.
Publication Date
1974
Edition
1
Recommended Citation
Law, Sylvia A. and The Health Law Project, University of Pennsylvania, "Blue Cross: What Went Wrong?" (1974). Faculty Books & Edited Works. 440.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-books-edited-works/440
