Malpractice Reform: The Authors Reply

摘要

Marc Franklin is a renowned legal scholar, and his questions about our article (Jan 2014) are reasonable ones. We address them in turn. Why act now? If we can reduce the disorganization and waste in our health care system, patients will be able to afford care, the care will be better, and injuries will happen less often. But we are unlikely to fix these problems without the willing cooperation of physicians-and the deal we propose seems like a very good way to obtain that cooperation.