Feds Shouldn’t Meddle With Medical Malpractice
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March 12 (Bloomberg) -- The idea that we should reform theway we handle allegations of medical malpractice is enjoying anew vogue.
At the end of a long cover story for Time magazine on highU.S. health-care costs, Steven Brill suggested that doctors whofollow the best practices in the field should be shielded fromliability. Peter Orszag, writing for Bloomberg View, argued thatthis policy could do a lot to reduce costs. One of the fewhealth-care ideas that almost all congressional Republicans haveagreed on, meanwhile, is caps on medical-malpractice awards.