Why did the PPACA not emphasize malpractice reform as a more important component of health care reform?

Claims of a medical malpractice crisis stem in large part from recent increases in malpractice insurance rates, with premiums for some individual doctors set in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Most doctors, actuaries, and insurance officials attribute these costs to the lack of caps on liability awards....

American hospitals have undergone substantial changes in the last quarter-century due to changes in medical technology, changes in payment policies by Medicare and other third-party payers, and new forms of competition from outpatient care and specialty hospitals. Still, the future of the hospital sector is a major issue in all...

AEI scholars and other experts will examine the likely impact, feasibility, and support for forthcoming health care reforms.

80% of women at the top (in business, I presume) have husbands who don’t work.

In a recent article, Duke University law professors and health-care policy researchers Clark C. Havighurst and Barak D. Richman argue that ordinary Americans with health coverage pay substantially higher premiums to support a vast enterprise that primarily benefits health-care industry interests and other higher-income consumers and taxpayers. They find “serious...