Medical Malpractice and the U. S. Health Care System

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Author: William M. Sage

ISBN-10: 0521614112

ISBN-13: 9780521614115

Category: Insurance

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This book connects medical liability to broader trends and goals in American health policy.

1The medical malpractice system : structure and performance112Malpractice reform as a health policy problem303Medical malpractice and the new politics of health care434Who pays when malpractice premiums rise?715The effects of the U.S. malpractice system on the cost and quality of care846Liability, patient safety, and defensive medicine : what does the future hold?937Medical liability and the culture of technology1158Promoting fairness in the medical malpractice system1379Caps and the construction of damages in medical malpractice cases15410Expertise and the legal process17311Disclosure and fair resolution of adverse events19112Enterprise liability in the twenty-first century21913Private contractual alternatives to malpractice liability24514Medical malpractice insurance reform : "enterprise insurance" and some alternatives26715Governments as insurers in professional and hospital liability insurance markets29116Medicare-led malpractice reform318