This site has several areas of coverage, but focuses on the three main topic areas of telecommunications, health and accessing the legal system. This is an area of increasing concern among consumers due to changing services, laws, and prices. Topics covered in this section include Medical Assistance, Badgercare, HMO's, coverage for the uninsured, and more. This is a new area related to Health Law and Telecommunications involving the use of on-line data transmission for remote diagnoses, physician consultation and communication, and similar innovative approaches to the practice of medicine. Issues that arise concern licensing, regulation, insurance and quality of care.
Many people are unable to afford legal services or find greatly needed legal information.
The Center for Public Representation would like to do what it can to bring some of the benefits of the legal system to those who otherwise would not have any legal recourse. International Law Developed and developing countries are all trying to figure out how to provide legal assistance for underrepresented groups. By sharing information, practitioners from Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, the United States and China demonstrate their commonality of purpose and develop strategies to overcome the challenges they face. Click here to check out the recent article in Communique , a news and information publication from the Office of International Studies and Programs , University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Center relies on the generosity of others to provide its services.