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Medical Malpractice

8/6/2003

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Medical Malpractice

“Road Map” of Talk

Extent of Problems

Assessing Problems Battle of the Clichés

Each View Is Partly Right

But the Less Simplistic View Is More Plausible

Rise & Fall of Claims Rate

All Casualty Coverage Up, Medical Worst

Problems Are State Specific

Traditional "Tort Reform” (first generation)

Most Heated Argument Is for and against Caps

Caps, Continued

Less Familiar Reforms (second generation)

Greater Transparency -1

Greater Transparency -2

Full Transparency - 3 Trial Run

Further Short-Term Alternatives

Further-Reaching Alternatives (third generation)

Third-Generation Addresses the Really Big Problem

Medical Injury and Liability

State Experimentation -1

State Experimentation - 2

State Experimentation - 3

Virginia/Florida “No-Fault”

Summing up: Options for Action

Author: Bovbjerg

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