Proponents of tort reform often focus on superfluous malpractice suits and forget that malpractice really does occur. Defending actual malpractice rather than excessive lawsuits is a much more difficult sell. The UC-SD study points to a situation in which human error enters into the health care system.
The AMA supports tort reform to some degree because 90% of their membership would leave if they didn't. and more than a handful of legitimate academic studies suggest that caps will do very little to lower malpractice premiums, while significantly damaging a plaintiff's ability to file suit in proportion to the magnitude of a grievance. And while I'd be more than willing to support caps if there was hard evidence that could lead to a cheaper, more accessible health care system, that evidence doesn't seem to unequivocally exist.
Proponents of tort reform often focus on superfluous malpractice suits and forget that malpractice really does occur. Defending actual malpractice rather than excessive lawsuits is a much more difficult sell. The UC-SD study points to a situation in which human error enters into the health care system.
ReplyDeleteThe AMA supports tort reform to some degree because 90% of their membership would leave if they didn't. and more than a handful of legitimate academic studies suggest that caps will do very little to lower malpractice premiums, while significantly damaging a plaintiff's ability to file suit in proportion to the magnitude of a grievance. And while I'd be more than willing to support caps if there was hard evidence that could lead to a cheaper, more accessible health care system, that evidence doesn't seem to unequivocally exist.