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Health of the People: The Highest Law?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Lawrence O. Gostin
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From my perspective, as a White House official watching the budgetary process, and subsequently as head first of a health care financing agency and then of a public health agency, I was continually amazed to watch as billions of dollars were allocated to financing medical care with little discussion, whereas endless arguments ensued over a few millions for community prevention programs. The sums that were the basis for prolonged, and often futile, budget fights in public health were treated as rounding errors in the Medicare budget.

William Roper (1994)

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , Fall 2004 , pp. 509 - 515
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2004

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