"Medical Malpractice in Crisis: Health Care Policy Options" 3/3/2003
Council on Health Care Economics and Policy, Washington, D.C.
A look at the critical issue of medical malpractice through the lens of health policy and our health care system.
Welcome and "Medical Malpractice and Our Evolving Health System: Crisis and Change"
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Introduction: Is There Anything New About the Malpractice Crisis? Stuart Altman, chair, Council on Health Care Economics and Policy, and professor, Brandeis University.
Medical Malpractice and Our Evolving Health System: Crisis and Change: William Sage, Columbia Law School
Council Responses: Paul Ginsburg, Center for Studying Health System Change, and Karen Davis, the Commonwealth Fund.
"The Malpractice Insurance Marketplace" & "Deconstructing Medical Malpractice Costs"
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The Malpractice Insurance Marketplace: Kenneth Thorpe, Emory University
Deconstructing Medical Malpractice Costs: Robert Hunter, Director of Insurance, Consumer Federation of America
Council Responses: Nancy Dickey, Texas A&M System Health Science Center and Mark Pauly, University of Pennsylvania.
"The Goals of Malpractice and Malpractice Reform"
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Malpractice Liability and Medical Error Prevention: Strange Bedfellows?: Michelle Mello, Harvard School of Public Health
Hospitals and Malpractice Reform: John Horty, Horty, Springer, and Mattern
Council Responses: David Blumenthal, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Stuart Butler, the Heritage Foundation
Reforming the Medical Justice System: Phillip Howard, Chairman, Common Good and partner, Covington and Burling.
Congressional Responses -- Malpractice Reform: Outlook for 2003: Cheryl Jaeger, Majority Staff Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Jonathan Cordone, Minority Counsel, House Committee on Energy and Commerce

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