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The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lectures 2002 Fostering Rapid Advances in Health Care (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Liability
Pages 18-20

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From page 18...
... We tend to treat them as a special case that really does not relate to all the things that, in fact, we know they do, including the other ways people access health care, the providers who must make that health care available, and how it must be paid for. I think one thing that has contributed to this unfortunate tendency toward what I like to call liability exceptionalism is that in the political world, we continue to debate proposals that are malpractice liabilities first considered and adopted in some jurisdictions back in 1975.
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From page 19...
... So, the notion of option one is to provide incentives for these organizations to step forward, change the way they compensate injury, connect the things they can do to improve patient safety to public systems of accountability, and in return get tort immunity and significant changes to the current system of resolving patient injury disputes. Option two is a statewide administrative scheme, which looks to the entire provider community within a state to engage in both the prompt compensation of avoidable injuries and the patient safety improvement activity and to do that on an all-inclusive, mandatory basis.
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From page 20...
... As a financial inducement, we focused on the federal government contributing to the excess coverage that these institutional health care providers currently face. One of the facts of the current liability crisis is that the excess layer of coverage is extremely expensive for a variety of reasons, many of which are related to the reinsurance markets.
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