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Are Nursing Home Regulations Like Cobwebs?
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Philip K. Howard (2014). The Rule of Nobody: Collapse of mon Good (2002) (Howard,
Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken 1995, 2002).
Government. . Norton & Company, New In this latest project, Howard despairs that reg-
York, 256 pp., $ (hardcover). ulation in the United States has veered far from
its proper function as a setter of boundaries or http://gerontologist./
The brilliant satirist Jonathan Swift said long parameters within which individuals are empow-
ago, “Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch ered—in fact, are obligated—to act with moral
small flies, but let wasps and s break and professional judgment and mon
through.”(Brainy Quote, .). Swift certainly did sense. Instead, law has e a too detailed (and
not intend that remark as pliment to either hence highly dysfunctional) rigid instruction man-
laws or cobwebs. heless, almost all laws ual for the procedures of daily living, a series of
originate to plish some reasonably defensi- excu