Health Reform Requires Lawsuit Reform
Written by Michael Moran on July 15, 2009 – 9:02 am
Common Good Chairman Philip K. Howard points out in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal that health care reform is impossible without lawsuit reform.
The Business Council supports lawsuit reform on both the state and federal level to lower health care, insurance and other costs. The Business Council is a member of NYTortReformNow.org.
Howard writes: “Containing health-care costs is impossible under the current legal structure. That fact has to be addressed if President Barack Obama is to create an affordable health-care system that is accessible to everyone. Every incentive in the system now is to do more — that’s how doctors get paid and that’s how doctors get protected from lawsuits. Billions of dollars are wasted in “defensive medicine.”