A Self-Inflicted "Crisis": New York's Medical Malpractice Insurance Troubles Caused By Flawed State Rate Setting and Raid on Rainy Day Fund
Contributing Organization(s): Public Citizen's Congress Watch
Author(s)/Creator(s): Peter Gosselar
Publishing Date: 2007-11-01
Issue Areas: Consumer Protection; Health and Medicine
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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.
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