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Tort Reform!
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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
The Economist is probably the best news publication out there. That said, they sometimes come out with utter crap. This article might as well have been written by the AMA. Not a mention of the 1999 Institute of Medicine report that found between 44,000 and 98,000 preventable deaths every year in US hospitals, or the 2002 Public Citizen report that 5% of doctors are responsible for 50% of malpractice awards. A 2005 study by Dartmouth College researchers suggested that increases in doctors' insurance premiums are not due to jury awards and financial settlements for injured patients, but are more likely due to insurance companies having raised doctors' premiums to compensate for falling investment returns.
Reregulate insurance companies, force the AMA to police its own, and mandate aggressive reductions in preventable errors in hospitals. Any or all of these will reduce malpractice awards - and the last two have the additional benefit of increasing the quality of health care.
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2 on everything stated above, also noting the 2005 study at the University of Texas and the 2005 study from Columbia.
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