Personal Injury Law

Bloomberg Article on Medical Liability Reform

By John A. Day

"Malpractice Lawsuits Are ‘Red Herring' in Obama Health Plan" is the title of this article from Bloomberg.

Am excerpt: 

While Obama vowed to address physicians' malpractice worries in a speech yesterday, the annual jury awards and legal settlements involving doctors amounts to 'a drop in the bucket' in a country that spends $2.3 trillion annually on health care, said Amitabh Chandra, an economist at Harvard University, in a telephone interview. Chandra estimated the cost at $12 per person in the U.S., or about $3.6 billion, in a 2005 study. Insurer WellPoint Inc. said in a report last month that liability wasn't driving up health premiums.

Full post as published by Day on Torts on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).