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Health Affairs, 23, no. 4 (2004): 10-21 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.23.4.10 © 2004 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Malpractice Crisis

The Forgotten Third: Liability Insurance And The Medical Malpractice Crisis

William M. Sage

Although the most visible manifestations of medical malpractice involve patient safety and the legal process, the availability and affordability of liability insurance largely determine the direction of medical malpractice policy. Scientific and industrial developments since the first modern malpractice crisis in the 1970s reveal major problems with the structure and regulation of liability insurance. Comprehensive reforms that approach medical malpractice insurance as a health policy problem are needed, and the Medicare program may have a major role to play.

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