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Why I favor malpractice reform

Posted on May 17, 2008

My esteemed colleague DrRich recently wrote against malpractice reform - Covert Rationing Makes Malpractice Reform A Bad Idea. Consider the implications of the malpractice system to patients in such an environment. In a healthcare system where physicians are being urged, cajoled, threatened, incented and coerced to practice medicine to some statistical mean and not to the individual, and where the mean to which they are supposed to aspire is determined by central authorities mad with the need to covertly ration care, the only real leverage patients retain is the implied threat to sue ...

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