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Health Care & Hospital Law

Aug. 30, 2000

Rationing Rationale

By Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich. More than a third of all Americans receive their health care through employer-sponsored managed-care plans; that is, through plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (29 U.S.C. Section 1001 et seq.). The case of Pegram v. Herdrich, 120 S.Ct. 2143 (2000), was one of the most closely watched on the U.S. Supreme Court's docket last term because it had the potential to outlaw the use of managed care by ERISA plans.

        By Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich
        
        More than a third of all Americans receive their health care through employer-sponsored managed-care plans; that is, through plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (29 U.S.C. Section 1001 et seq.). The case of Pegram v. Herdrich, 120 S.Ct. 2143 (2000), was one o...

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