| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15383 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15383 |
| The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability | |
| Darius N. Lakdawalla; Seth A. Seabury | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-09-24 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Policymakers and the public are concerned about the role of medical malpractice liability in the rising cost of medical care. We use variation in the generosity of local juries to identify the causal impact of malpractice liability on medical costs, mortality, and social welfare. The effect of malpractice on medical costs is large relative to its share of medical expenditures, but relatively modest in absolute terms--growth in malpractice payments over the last decade and a half contributed at most 5.0% to the total real growth in medical expenditures, which topped 33% over this period. On the other side of the ledger, malpractice liability leads to modest reductions in patient mortality; the value of these more than likely exceeds the cost impacts of malpractice liability. Therefore, policies that reduce expected malpractice costs are unlikely to have a major impact on health care spending for the average patient, and are also unlikely to be cost-effective over conventionally accepted ranges for the value of a statistical life. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15383 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573058 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Darius N. Lakdawalla,Seth A. Seabury. The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability. 2009. |
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| w15383.pdf（295KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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