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The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

Project Overview and Emerging Themes

Elenora E. Connors, JD, MPH
Timothy M. Westmoreland, JD

 

The project overview provides a broad understanding of the purpose and layout of the project; the formulation and definition of key legal issues; a brief review of each of the topics covered in the project; a survey of current health statistics in the United States; a discussion of the role of the federal versus state roles in health reform; a review of agencies and committees with jurisdiction over health reform issues; and a survey of means of enforcing health reforms.

View the original May 2008 framing paper for the Legal Solutions in Health Reform project: