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Health Hazard

James Copland

Trial Lawyers Inc. / Manhattan Institute For Policy Research / October 01, 2009

The High Costs of Medical Malpractice and Defensive Medicine:• The direct cost of medical-malpractice litigation is $30.4 billion annually, according ... (read more)

The Facts about Medical Malpratice Liability Costs

Lawrence J. McQuillan and Hovannes Abramyan

Pacific Research Institute October 01, 2009

There is a lot of talk in Washington about cutting wasteful health care spending and, more specifically,cutting costs associated with medical malpractice ... (read more)

Federal Medical Malpractice Law Would Hinder Reform

Maureen Martin

The Heartland Institute / September 15, 2009

By Maureen Martin, J.D.The nation’s doctors are rightly concerned about the need for medical malpractice reform, but their clamor this week for passage ... (read more)

Malpractice Reform: Five Steps to Liability by Contract

John C. Goodman

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / December 01, 2008

Excerpt from The Handbook on State Health Care Reform, coauthored by John C. Goodman, Michael Bond, Devon M. Herrick, Gerald L. Musgrave, Pamela Villarreal, ... (read more)

Doctors' Group Helps Reduce Frivolous Lawsuits

Dr. Sanjit Bagchi

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / February 01, 2008

Providing a way to cope with a tort system that imposes huge unnecessary costs on doctors and other providers, Medical Justice, a membership-based organization ... (read more)

Minnesota Becomes First State to Stop Billing After Medical Errors

Maura Lerner

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / December 01, 2007

Minnesota's hospitals have formally agreed to stop charging patients and insurance companies for certain medical errors, such as operating on the wrong ... (read more)

Litigation Raising Health Care Costs, Study Says

Susan Konig

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / January 01, 2006

An October 2005 report from the Manhattan Institute shows the efforts of trial lawyers to target health care providers for profit are raising U.S. health ... (read more)

Faulty Studies from Center for Justice & Democracy Are Stunting the Medical-Malpractice Debate

Ted Frank and Martin F. Grace

Liability Outlook / American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research / April 24, 2006

Overview of Initiatives 330 and 336

Paul Guppy

Policy Brief / Washington Policy Center / September 01, 2005

Wisconsin Court's Foolish Inconsistency on Medical Malpractice

Maureen Martin

Heartland Perspective / The Heartland Institute / July 20, 2006

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," as Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote. But what about foolish inconsistencies? Much has been ... (read more)