期刊
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF LAW AND ECONOMICS
卷 32, 期 4, 页码 356-369出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2012.07.003
关键词
Medical malpractice liability; Medical expenditures; Defensive medicine
资金
- NIA NIH HHS [R03 AG025809, R01 AG031544] Funding Source: Medline
We use variation in the generosity of local juries to identify the causal impact of medical malpractice liability on social welfare. Growth in malpractice payments contributed at most 5% points to the 33% total real growth in medical expenditures from 1990 to 2003. On the other hand, malpractice leads to modest mortality reductions; the value of these more than likely exceeds the costs of malpractice liability. Therefore, reducing malpractice liability is unlikely to have a major impact on health care spending, and unlikely to be cost-effective over conventionally accepted values of a statistical life. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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