Reports and Studies:
Administrative Compensation of Medical Injuries: A Hardy Perennial Blooms Again
Paul Barringer, David Studdert, Allen Kachalia, and Michelle Mello, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, August 1, 2008
Common Good's General Counsel, Paul Barringer, discusses the history of administrative compensation in the U.S.
Administrative "Health Courts" for Medical Injury Claims: The Federal Constitutional Issues
Donald Elliott, Sanjay Narayan, and Moneen Nasmith, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, August 1, 2008
Common Good asked authors Elliott, Narayan and Nasmith to discuss the viability of a federal system of administrative medical liability compensation.
Error Reporting and Injury Compensation: Advancing Patient Safety Through a State Patient Safety Organization
Paul Barringer and Allen Kachalia, MD, Wyoming Law Review, August 1, 2008
This paper examines the potential for state patient safety organizations to improve error reporting and test alternative compensation techniques.
Creating Health Courts Through Consent
Opportunities and Challenges for a Non-Legislative Approach to Administrative Injury Compensation
Paul Barringer and Jenny Foreit, Common Good White Paper, August 1, 2008
This white paper discusses how policy makers interested in medical liability reform might do well to consider non-legislative approaches.
Op-Eds:
No Place to Be Born
Paul Barringer and Richard Berkowitz, New York Sun, August 25, 2008
In an op-ed for the New York Sun, Common Good General Counsel Paul Barringer and Columbia University Medical Center Professor Dr. Richard Berkowitz report on the Ob-Gyn crisis in New York.
New Thinking in Medical Liability Reform
Paul Barringer and Andrew Wasicek, ACNM on Location, May 23, 2008
Paul Barringer outlines the need for medical liability reform and how health courts could improve patient safety and streamline compensation.
Reforming Medical Liability (Forum)
Paul Barringer, Issues in Science and Technology, July 1, 2008
Paul Barringer responds to authors Frank Sloan and Lindsay Chepke, noting Common Good's work as it continues to promote alternatives to the current system.
News:
Daschle on Health Care and the Global Economy
Joanne Kenen, New America Foundation, July 31, 2008
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle spoke favorably about health courts in an address he gave on health care issues at the New American Foundation last week. Creating health courts, he suggested, would avoid many of the current litigation problems but still make sure that injured patients were protected and compensated.
AMA President Says N.Y. Needs More Primary Care Physicians
E.B. Solomont, New York Sun, July 14, 2008
In a recent interview, the president of the American Medical Association, Dr. Nancy Nielsen, discusses the challenges facing physicians today. She describes the pressures of medical liability and the need for reform. Nielsen notes medical courts as a promising alternative to our current system.
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