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A Self-Inflicted "Crisis:" New York's Medical Malpractice Insurance Troubles Caused by Flawed State Rating Setting and Raid on Rainy Day Fund
Publication Date: November 2007
Publisher(s): Center for Medical Consumers Inc.; Public Citizen, inc.; New York Public Interest Research Group
Author(s): Barry Boughton; Taylor Lincoln; Peter Gosselar
Topic: Health (Quality of health care)
Health (Health services administration)
Health (Health care financing)
Law and ethics (Health law)
Keywords: insurance; doctor; medical; malpractice
Type: Report
Coverage: New York
Abstract:
Shortsighted policy decisions by New York's government in the 1990s are responsible for the purported medical malpractice "crisis" in the state, according to this report released by Public Citizen, New York Public Interest Research Group and the Center for Medical Consumers. Gov. Eliot Spitzer and a task force studying malpractice are urged to focus on ways to improve patient safety and to resist pleas from the insurance industry and the state's doctors to pare back patients' legal rights.