Comments on: Mello et al.: does state-level malpractice exposure correlate with health care quality? https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/06/mello-et-al-state-level-malpractice-exposure-correlate-health-care-quality/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:23:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Walter Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/06/mello-et-al-state-level-malpractice-exposure-correlate-health-care-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-346053 Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:23:32 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=65005#comment-346053 In reply to Shirley Svorny.

Others at Cato who have spent many years studying the medical liability system dissent from some of the claims made in those two papers. However, in my opinion, this is neither the time nor the place to air policy disagreements to be found under the broad Cato umbrella, so I’ll stop there.

]]> By: Shirley Svorny https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/06/mello-et-al-state-level-malpractice-exposure-correlate-health-care-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-346052 Sun, 25 Jun 2017 20:58:29 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=65005#comment-346052 Medical professional liability insurance companies play a role in reducing practice risk. Insurance companies actively oversee physicians because they are liable. With malpractice caps, liability is reduced and this patient protection would be reduced as well. See this Cato Policy Analysis: https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa685.pdf. For a shorter outline of the main ideas, see: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/mandatory-medical-malpractice-caps-hurt-patients.

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