Liability and Patient Health
An AEI-Brookings Joint Center Event
Common Good
Tuesday, March 04, 2003 | 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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The fear of being sued continues to transform medicine in ways that are counterproductive to many health care constituencies. How has this fear of legal action affected important patient health issues such as access to care, medical errors, and innovation? The first panel will discuss this question and examine the impact of liability on the quality and availability of health care. The second panel will examine existing and imagined alternative adjudication and compensation structures from a patient perspective. Alternatives include a special medical court, a no-fault system versus a fault-based administrative system, as well as a system based on the vaccine injury compensation model.
Agenda
8:15 a.m. Registration
8:30 to 9:00 Welcome: Robert W. Hahn, Joint Center
Speaker: Tommy G. Thompson, United States Department of Health and Human Services
9:15 to 10:30 Panel I: The Effect of Liability on Patient Health
Moderator: Patricia M. Danzon, University of Pennsylvania
Panelists: Randall R. Bovbjerg, Urban Institute
Steven Garber, Rand Institute for Civil Justice
Eric Holmboe, Yale Medical School
Marshall Kapp, Wright State University School of Medicine
Michelle Mello, Harvard School of Public Health
11:00 a.m. to12:15 p.m. Panel II: Assessing Possible Reforms
Moderator: Robert E. Litan, Joint Center
Panelists: John Euler, Department of Justice
Martin J. Hatlie, Partnership for Patient Safety
Philip K. Howard, Common Good
David M. Studdert, Harvard School of Public Health
12:45 p.m. Luncheon Address
Speaker: David Beier, Former Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore
Closing: Philip K. Howard, Common Good
2:00 Adjournment
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