It’s bad enough that damage caps and other so-called “reforms” punish patients who have suffered preventable injuries from medical malpractice. But new research says it’s much worse: These reforms actually worsen quality medical care for all patients. And they don’t have any desirable tradeoffs like making care more affordable or attracting more doctors to a state.
Blogger Joanne Doroshow of the Center for Justice and Democracy, a patient rights advocate, reviews the evidence in a new piece on Huffington Post.