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Prologue:Physicians and patients play the key roles in determining the volume of medical services provided by practitioners. Physicians, as agents of their patients, render professional judgments regarding the use of medical services. Professional norms call for the provision of all beneficial services, but physicians paid on a fee-for-service basis have a financial incentive to provide more service (in contrast to doctors paid on a capitated basis, who have a financial incentive to undertreat). As physician practice has come under more intense financial pressure, there is some evidence that physicians have responded to fee constraints by providing additional services. In this paper, Janet Mitchell and her coauthors track trends in Medicare physician spending during the program's recent (1984-1986) freeze on fees for services provided by doctors. By examining all Medicare claims submitted by doctors from four states and extrapolating the data to the experience in all states, the authors found that the program and its beneficiaries were spending 29.5 percent more ($582 versus $450) for physician services by 1986 than was the case three years earlier; despite the fee freeze. The major spending increases were for surgery and diagnostic tests. Mitchell, who holds a doctorate in social welfare from Brandeis University, is president of the Center for Health Economics Research, a Boston-area based nonprofit research organization that (with its sister organization, the for-profit Health Economics Research, Inc.) is devoted exclusively to the study of public-sector health financing issues, jerry Cromwell, who holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard University, is president of Health Economics Research, Inc. The two organizations derive virtually all of their revenues from federal grants and contracts with the Health Care Financing Administration and other federal entities. Gerard Wedig also holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard. Before assuming his current position as assistant professor of health care systems at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, he was a senior economist at the Center for Health Economics Research.

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The article discusses the efforts of the Supreme Court and provincial appellate courts to reevaluate and revise the common-law principles that govern various aspects of litigation between domestic and foreign parties in Canada. The reevaluation initiative has focused on such issues as jurisdiction over out-of-province defendants and the enforcement of foreign judgments. The Ontario Court of Appeal's decision in Van Breda v. Village Resorts Ltd., wherein it has established a set of principles that brings certainty for litigants is also explained.

The article focuses on the Law and Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the U.S. The program studies the effects and causes of legal rules with a special focus on the foundational legal subjects including property law, criminal law, and contract law. It also focuses on the operation of the legal process. Additionally, it examines topics such as labor markets for lawyers, litigation dynamics and judicial and agency behavior.

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