{"id":313024,"date":"2010-02-12T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:law.nd.edu,2005:News\/14623"},"modified":"2010-02-12T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:13:32","slug":"prof-mayer-on-healthcare-reform-and-nonprofits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/313024","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Mayer on healthcare reform and nonprofits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"image-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/assets\/1282\/mayer.jpg\" title=\"faculty_mayer\" alt=\"faculty_mayer\" \/> Notre Dame Associate Professor of Law Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer is quoted extensively in the latest issue of \u201cThe Non-Profit Times,\u201d a business publication for non-profit managers. Mayer addresses the potential impact of a proposal in the Senate\u2019s healthcare reform bill to develop a federal program known as the Consumer Operated and Oriented (CO-OP) program.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from the publication:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:1em;\">\u201cThere\u2019s going to be an influx of people establishing these nonprofits because there is money there,\u201d said Mayer. \u201cAnd the big unknowns are how are they going to work, how well are they going to be monitored and how are we going to make sure these are truly nonprofit entities and that there are not owners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:1em;\">Mayer explained that the nonprofit CO-OP might be easier to swallow than the well-debated and controversial public option. \u201cI think it makes a big difference because what people don\u2019t like and what they are concerned about, and rationally so, is government bureaucrats making the decisions,\u201d said Mayer. \u201cThey are much more comfortable with a private entity, that\u2019s subjected to some government restrictions and requirements, but a private entity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the complete article, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nptimes.com\/10Jan\/npt-100115-1.html\">http:\/\/www.nptimes.com\/10Jan\/npt-100115-1.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Mayer\u2019s areas of research interest and expertise include advocacy by nonprofit organizations, the growing intersection of election law and tax law with respect to lobbying and other political activity, and the role of nonprofits both domestically and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Professor Mayer, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/law.nd.edu\/people\/faculty-and-administration\/teaching-and-research-faculty\/lloyd-hitoshi-mayer\">http:\/\/law.nd.edu\/people\/faculty-and-administration\/teaching-and-research-faculty\/lloyd-hitoshi-mayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/lawschool\/news\/~4\/9-nPXUfeYoU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notre Dame Associate Professor of Law Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer is quoted extensively in the latest issue of \u201cThe Non-Profit Times,\u201d a business publication for non-profit managers. Mayer addresses the potential impact of a proposal in the Senate\u2019s healthcare reform bill to develop a federal program known as the Consumer Operated and Oriented (CO-OP) program. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}