Comments on: Marc Rodwin and the Massachusetts medical malpractice crisis

By: Health Affairs letter on Marc Rodwin Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Study

Health Affairs letter on Marc Rodwin Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Study — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:19:39 +0000

[…] may remember Professor Rodwin and I debating his paper on Point of Law; that debate has spilled over onto the pages of the November/December issue of Health Affairs, […]

By: throckmorton

throckmorton — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:26:33 +0000

Papers like this a full of “Bikini statistics”. That is to say, what they fail to reveal is much more interesting that what they show. To determine a true relationship between variables it is essential to isolate them. The paper in question does none of this, in fact, the data is uses doesn’t even support its own conclusions.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:03:10 +0000

Your observations about the flawed analysis used in the paper are dead on. Unfortunately, it seems that Health Affairs often publishes questionable articles like this one in an effort to push a message.

By: Ted Frank

Ted Frank — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:34:59 +0000

Tier-1 malpractice rates are rising substantially faster than inflation.

By: Christopher Eckel

Christopher Eckel — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:11:10 +0000

Since Tier one malpractice rates are not rising, let’s all support indexing medicare payments to doctors in high risk specialties to the change in malpractice insurance rates. This is the obvious way to eliminate inflation for doctor bills.