A summer of discontent: press coverage of murder and medical care reform

Article Abstract:

Media coverage of the O.J. Simpson double murder case presents an instructive contrast with coverage of health care reform. The Simpson case has occasioned a nationwide education in criminal procedure, a process that has helped to confirm the authority of the legal system. Legal experts have often appeared on the media to explain technical aspects of the case. By contrast, coverage of health care reform was disappointing. Critics of reform could present distorted rhetoric without being subject to cross-examination, while the media did not rely on experts to clarify the issues, as has occurred in the Simpson coverage.

Analysis, Murder, Media coverage, Speeches, lectures and essays, Transcript, Press and politics, Simpson, O.J., Marmor, Theodore R.

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The effects of tort reform on medical malpractice insurance markets: an empirical analysis

Article Abstract:

Tort reforms of medical malpractice insurance passed by 43 states in 1975 and 1976 improved both the ability of medical personnel to afford the insurance and the profitability of the insurance industry. Cross-sectional analysis of statewide loss ratio statistics from 1977-86 show that the establishment of statutory ceilings on plaintiffs' recovery and the codification of standards of care lowered the price of insurance, reduced risk and improved the industry's finances. However, these laws are not a solution, merely a first step.

Economic aspects, Cases, Laws, regulations and rules, Insurance industry, Freedom of speech, Tort reform, Medical malpractice insurance

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So near, and yet so far: a Canadian perspective on U.S. health care reform

Article Abstract:

A number of erroneous beliefs act as structural impediments to enactment of health care reform in the US. These include beliefs that health care financing must be employment-based, that additional revenue is needed to provide universal coverage, that the private sector is more efficient than the public sector, and that user fees must be a part of any efficient health care system. The experience of the rest of the industrialized nations refutes each of these misconceptions.

Canada, Comparative analysis

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