Advice to Law Students
When I graduated law school in 1981, health law was pretty much nonexistent. Now, to be relevant, most law schools offer some health law courses.
Because? Health law is hot. It was hot before Obamacare, and it will remain hot.
Harvard Law School has its health blog, Bill of Health. Yale Law School is opening its new Solomon Center for Health Policy and Law next month. U.S. News ranks the country’s top health law programs.
Getting healthy and staying that way is a passion for most Americans. Obamacare has changed the way the country thinks about dispensing health care. But there will always be sick people. New drugs will be invented, and new procedures adopted. All to make us healthier or to make us more comfortable in our sickness. Health care is big business, and, by necessity, will remain heavily regulated. After all, there will always be patients and providers who will try to game the system.
So, law students, if you don’t know what path to follow, you could do a lot worse than health law