John Banja

TL;DR: Voluntary, employment-based insurance is afflicted by a variety of internal imbalances: inequities in the way health insurance is paid for, a conflict of interest in the selection of health insurance, the concentration of the healthy and the sick into separate plans, and free-ridership.

TL;DR: It is argued that Western courts have actually adjudicated cases of "negligent nondisclosure," that is, cases in which patient-plaintiffs allege that their informed consent rights were violated by the failure of their health providers to inform them of reasonably foreseeable risks that subsequently materialized.

TL;DR: Examining only social media and e-health programs, the authors produce an impressive array of questions to consider, but it is argued that two of them are not nearly as worrisome as might be supposed.