List of Contributors page xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Susannah Baruch, I. Glenn Cohen, Wendy Netter Epstein,
Christopher Robertson, and Carmel Shachar
part i what is private law? theory and structure
1 Public Funds, Public Functions, Private Actors: The Cognitive
Dissonance of US Health Law 7
William Sage
2 Private Ordering Is Ubiquitous in Health Care, but Why? 20
Barbara J. Evans
3 Abandoning Fiduciaries in Health Care 32
Lauren R. Roth
4 European Distinctions between Private and Public Law in Health
Care and the Emerging Inûuence of Private Lobbies 44
Barry Solaiman
part ii tools of private law: torts, contracts, and
property as vehicles of health policy introduction
Wendy Netter Epstein
5 Data Transparency, ERISA Preemption, and Freedom of Contract 61
Craig Konnoth
6 States as Contractor: Attempts to Drive Health Care Cost
Containment through State Purchasing Power 73
Christine H. Monahan, Maanasa Kona, and Madeline O’Brien
7 Adaptation of Tort Law to Modern Health Care Delivery in the
Restatement of Medical Malpractice 85
Mark A. Hall
8 Pandemic Harms and Private Law’s Limits: A Proposal for
Tort Replacement 96
Jill R. Horwitz, Alberto De Diego-Habel, and Daniel B. Rodriguez
9 The Human Body Commons: A Private Law Contribution for the
Advancement of the Right to Health 108
Enrique Santamaría Echeverría
part iii russian dolls, reproduction, and private law
introduction
I. Glenn Cohen
10 Employer-Sponsored Abortion Coverage: Private Law’s Role in
Reproductive Freedom 123
Valarie K. Blake and Elizabeth Y. McCuskey
11 Reproductive Innovation and Reproductive Exceptionalism: How
Private Health Insurance Coverage of Fertility Treatment
Complements Hostile Governmental Action and Expands Access
to Assisted Reproduction in the United States 136
Myrisha S. Lewis
12 Business Responses to Dobbs: The Return to a “Reproductive
Rights” Approach, and Suspicions around Corporate Care 148
Asees Bhasin
13 Privatizing the Creation of Equity in Women’s Health 162
Thomas W. Williams
part iv how private law can and cannot control costs:
introduction
Christopher Robertson
14 Federalism, Private Law, and Medical Debt 179
Erin C. Fuse Brown
15 Paying for Health Care and Private Law’s Internal Point of View 192
James Toomey
16 Health Law’s Sheathed Sword: Why Hasn’t Civil Litigation
Dented Health Care Costs? 204
Jackson Williams
17 The Canary in the Coal Mine: Private Antitrust Law and New
Dynamics in Health Care Markets 217
Jaime S. King
18 Health Care Finance Law’s Relational Bias 229
Jessica Mantel
part v private law applied: the pharmaceutical
industry, nursing homes, and the end of life
introduction
Carmel Shachar
19 The Financialization of Digital Clinical Trials: Tensions between
Efûciency and Scientiûc Evidence Accessibility 243
Ximena Benavides
20 Shareholder Resolutions and Access to Medications 255
Rebecca E. Wolitz
21 The Hollowed-Out American Nursing Home: Using Private Law to
Police Poor Quality Care and Expand Owner Responsibilities 270
Barry R. Furrow
22 Health Care Organization Policies about the California End of
Life Option Act: The Paper Victory of the Medical Aid in
Dying Movement 283
Megan S. Wright and Cindy L. Cain