Jack Bierig
Lecturer in Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 312-853-7614
email: jbierig@sidley.com

Current Year Courses

• 78801 1 Health Law and Policy
  Health law is a vast and expanding field. No single course can survey it all. This course focuses on the organization, financing, and provision of medical care, with an eye toward issues not yet resolved by courts, legislators, regulators, and American society. It also considers some related ethical questions. Topics and themes include the economics of health insurance and managed care, regulatory responses to the market's perceived failures, medical tort law, access to care, consumer choice and patient autonomy, defining and assessing quality, health care providers' conflicts of interest, privacy and confidentiality, and socio-economic and racial disparities in health and medical care. The course will also consider the health reform options facing the new President and Congress. A student s grade will be based on a take-home examination and class participation.
  Autumn (3)