Both Symptom and Disease: Relating Medical Malpractice to Health-Care Costs

Q3 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Forum for Health Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2012-09-10 DOI:10.1515/FHEP-2012-0010

W. Sage

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract Tort reformers blame the high cost of American health care on defensive responses to rampant medical malpractice litigation. Defenders of the tort system counter that holding health care providers liable for negligence improves safety and ensures compensation for injury. The relationship between medical malpractice and health care expenditures is more complex than either of these positions reflects. The existing medical malpractice system increases medical spending mainly because it has evolved in tandem with other inflationary features of the health care system and may make those features even more difficult to change. In other words, medical malpractice is both a symptom of a costly health care system and a costly disease in its own right.

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症状与疾病:医疗事故与医疗保健费用的关系

侵权改革家将美国医疗保健的高成本归咎于对猖獗的医疗事故诉讼的防御性反应。侵权制度的捍卫者反驳说，让医疗服务提供者对过失负责可以提高安全，并确保对伤害的赔偿。医疗事故与卫生保健支出之间的关系比上述任何一种立场所反映的都要复杂。现有的医疗事故制度增加了医疗支出，主要是因为它与医疗保健系统的其他通胀特征同步发展，并可能使这些特征更加难以改变。换句话说，医疗事故既是昂贵的医疗保健系统的一个症状，也是一种昂贵的疾病。

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Forum for Health Economics and Policy Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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期刊介绍： Forum for Health Economics & Policy (FHEP) showcases articles in key substantive areas that lie at the intersection of health economics and health policy. The journal uses an innovative structure of forums to promote discourse on the most pressing and timely subjects in health economics and health policy, such as biomedical research and the economy, and aging and medical care costs. Forums are chosen by the Editorial Board to reflect topics where additional research is needed by economists and where the field is advancing rapidly. The journal is edited by Katherine Baicker, David Cutler and Alan Garber of Harvard University, Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, Dana Goldman of the University of Southern California and RAND Corporation, Neeraj Sood of the University of Southern California, Anup Malani and Tomas Philipson of University of Chicago, Pinar Karaca Mandic of the　University of Minnesota, and John Romley of the University of Southern California. FHEP is sponsored by the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. A subscription to the journal also includes the proceedings from the National Bureau of Economic Research''s annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research Conference. Topics: Economics, Political economics, Biomedical research and the economy, Aging and medical care costs, Nursing, Cancer studies, Medical treatment, Others related.