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Fordham Urban Law Journal articles from April 2008
A bimonthly legal book published by the law school at Fordham University. Each issue focuses on a single topic, and publishes original research, critical pieces, and long-form essays related to that topic.
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Fordham Urban Law Journal archives from April 2008
Universal health care in Massachusetts: setting the standard for national reform.
April 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION
Health care reform in the United States has proven to be one of the most complex challenges facing lawmakers and private citizens today. Although there is widespread agreement that the system is in disarray and in dire need...
Debilitating Alexander v. Choate: "meaningful access" to health care for people with disabilities.
April 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION
Since 1985, Alexander v. Choate (1) has stood for the proposition that financially-motivated limitations and cutbacks in state-provided health care services imposing significant negative impacts on people with disabilities are...
Positive health: the human right to health care under the New York State Constitution.
April 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION
In his first State of the State address, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer recognized the urgent need to "reform our health care system." (1) He explained that "when 2.8 million New Yorkers can't afford health...
A civic republican view of hospital closures and community health planning.
April 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION
Listening to today's news, it is impossible not to hear someone call for immediate health care reform. The uninsured, rising health care costs, the diabetes epidemic, the financial instability of health care...
The healthy Washington initiative: blue-ribbon process, red-herring result.
April 1, 2008... "Quality, affordable health care is a right, not a privilege, and the Healthy Washington Initiative will make changes that bring us another step closer to serving all Washingtonians." (1)
INTRODUCTION
In 2006, empowered by the...
No scrutiny whatsoever: deconstitutionalization of poverty law, dual rules of law, & dialogic default.
April 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION
Poverty Law in the United States subsists within a constitutional framework that constructs a separate and unequal rule of law for poor people. Across constitutional doctrines, poor people suffer diminished protection, with...
Loose standards, tight lips: why easy access to client data can undermine homeless management information systems.
April 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION
Although homelessness emerged as a widespread and widely recognized social problem nearly three decades ago, researchers, politicians, and homeless service providers nationwide still lack a reliable source of data on the size...