Medical liability reform approach
Leading up to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March 2010, federal liability reforms were contemplated as a means of garnering support for the legislation among congressional Republicans and medical professional organizations.
Although no liability-reform provisions survived in the final bill, Congress made clear the need for more experimentation.
The final legislation authorized $50 million for states and health care systems to test new approaches to the resolution of medical-injury disputes.
This authorization supplemented the $23 million that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded in 2010 for projects to advance new approaches to medical-injury compensation and patient safety” (Kachalia and Mello, 2011, p. 1564).
Reform and improvement of the U.S. medical liability system is a prevalent issue on the national health policy agenda (Kachalia and Mello, 2011). Kachalia, A. and Mello, M. M. (2011). New directions in medical liability reform. New England Journal of Medicine, 364(16), 1564-1572.
Which of the medical liability reform approaches described in Tables 2 and 3 of Kachalia and Mello (2011) do you favor?
Why?
