Essentials of Health Policy and Law Quotes

“branch administrative agencies to implement statutes and clarify their ambiguities.”
― Joel B. Teitelbaum, Out of Print: Essentials of Health Policy and Law

“Indeed, law “takes an understanding, a norm, an attitude, and hardens it into muscle and bone”4(p29); however, this is subject to change, for as our society evolves, so too does our law.”
― Joel B. Teitelbaum, Out of Print: Essentials of Health Policy and Law

“As the quotation at the outset of this chapter implies, the study of law is in essence the study of human beings, particularly their evolving customs, beliefs, and value systems.”
― Joel B. Teitelbaum, Out of Print: Essentials of Health Policy and Law

“It is perfectly proper to regard and study the law simply as a great anthropological document.”
― Joel B. Teitelbaum, Out of Print: Essentials of Health Policy and Law

“Practically, administrative agencies often work out of the public’s eye to implement the laws passed by Congress and the executive orders signed by the president.”
― Joel B. Teitelbaum, Out of Print: Essentials of Health Policy and Law

“bioethics can be thought of as the point at which public policy, law, individual morals, societal values, and medicine intersect. The bioethics domain houses some of the most explosive questions in health policy,”
― Joel B. Teitelbaum, Out of Print: Essentials of Health Policy and Law

“A central focus here is on why and how the government regulates private individuals and corporations in the name of protecting the health, safety, and welfare of the general public.”
― Joel B. Teitelbaum, Out of Print: Essentials of Health Policy and Law

“Federal policy and law also play a role in public health. Although the word “health” never appears in the U.S. Constitution, the document confers powers on the federal government—to tax and spend, for example—that allow it to engage in public health promotion and disease”
― Joel B. Teitelbaum, Out of Print: Essentials of Health Policy and Law

“Health policies and laws have a strong and lasting effect on our quality of lives as individuals and on our safety and welfare as a nation.”
― Joel B. Teitelbaum, Out of Print: Essentials of Health Policy and Law

“Health policies and laws have become an inescapable and critical component of our everyday lives. The accessibility, cost, and quality of health care;”
― Joel B. Teitelbaum, Out of Print: Essentials of Health Policy and Law