Progressive medmal reform | Michael Tomasky

Here's an interesting article on progressive (i.e., non-cap-lowering) approaches to malpractice reform that was posted last week at the American Prospect by Joanne Kenen of the New America Foundation. You should read this.

Bottom line: creating health compensation boards not unlike workers' compensation boards. Which, yes, have their own problems, too. But it seems that one goal of such boards would be a hope that they would address the current imbalance in tortuous medical proceedings, by which 95% of litigants get nothing and the other 5% get huge damage awards. But there are innovative aspects to the idea as well, which Kenen lays out.

Okay, now I'm really going to get on my airplane.

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