Medical Screening and the Employee Health Cost Crisis

New things sometimes have a "me too" appearance. In the work Medical Screening and the Employee Health Cost Crisis we have a "me again" approach. Professor Rothstein, an attorney, states in his preface that this book was written as a sequel to the 1984 book Medical Screening of Workers and that it is intended to both "stand alone" and to follow up on issues raised earlier. If one judges this book by its cover, one will be disappointed. The current cost of health care is one of the significant issues of both labor-management relations and national policy for the 1990s and can be expected to continue as such. Strikes can already be traced to who will pay for employee and retiree health benefits. If one were looking for an insightful review of this issue, this would not be the book to read. The book is replete with numerous difficulties and