Since 2009, PROMs have been used on a routine and mandated basis to assess outcomes in four elective surgical procedures in the NHS in England (http://www.ic.nhs.uk/proms, accessed 21 March 2013).
The panel concluded that although extravascular lung water has improved face validity and higher values are associated with mortality, it is infeasible to mandate on the basis of availability and the fact that it does not distinguish between hydrostatic and inflammatory pulmonary edema.
Nor is it clear what courts would say if an organization's religious tenets mandate differential treatment on the basis of race.
In other words, under heightened scrutiny, the United States cannot defend Section 3 by advancing hypothetical rationales, independent of the legislative record, as it has done in circuits where precedent mandates application of rational basis review.
Incredibly, and with no legal basis, he also expressed doubt that Congress has the power to mandate closer review of state secrets claims.
Mandate, mandate, mandate.
The mandate was the basis of Mitt Romney's successful health care overhaul in Massachusetts and is the basis for President Obama's Affordable Care Act.
(Last month, as part of the $700 billion bailout bill, Congress mandated that brokers report the basis of any stocks bought in 2011 or later).
I assume they are chiefly concerned about being unfavorably compared with a rival, which is also the basis for the mandated swaddling of female bodies in public, the theory being that exposed female flesh in public is like putting red meat in shark-infested waters.
The United States Surgeon General, on an annual basis, should be mandated to give a public State of the Nation's Health and Global Health address which is based on current scientific facts so that prudent national policy may then be generated by the President and Congress and political leadership can then be held accountable for their actions or inactions.
