We examine the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on medical liability and the controversy over whether medical liability reforms could make a useful contribution to health care reform. By providing guaranteed access and renewal at community rates, the ACA could reduce the problem of...

Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi have adopted medical malpractice reform legislation in response to the three crises in medical liability insurance. In 1975, Louisiana adopted damages caps, created a patient compensation fund, and mandated the submission of claims to screening panels. In...

A 2005 survey reveals that U.S. health economists spend approximately 55 percent of their professional time on research. Assistant, associate and full professors, on average, reported publishing 8.8, 17.0 and 22.1 peer reviewed papers, respectively, over the past five years. Non-academic health...

The apparent effects of beer taxes, workers' compensation rules, and other factors on reported rates of lost work-days due to injury are estimated. The data used are for injury rates for two-digit SIC industries at the state-level pooled over 1975-85. The results indicate that higher beer tax...