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Beyond Medical Tort Caps Laura Gilcrest
UPI, July 13, 2006
Reporting on the hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce on proposed reforms to our medical malpractice system, Laura Gilcrest of United Press International notes that “lawmakers agreed Thursday [July 13th] that the status quo isn’t working and the ultimate losers are the patients.” One of the proposals garnering the most attention at the hearing was Common Good’s health court proposal. Michelle Mello, a professor of health policy and law at Harvard University, told the committee that “[h]ealth courts would shift the medical liability system from one based on negligence – which breeds fear and stigma – to one focused on preventability.” She added that health courts, which would seek to compensate more injured people, more efficiently, “could be tested at the state level – and backed by federal dollars – through a series of pilot projects ‘at low cost and low risk.’”
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