Medical Liability, Managed Care, and Defensive Medicine

Because the optimal level of medical malpractice liability depends on the incentives provided by the health insurance system, the rise of managed care in the 1990s may affect the relationship between liability reform and defensive medicine. In this paper, we assess empirically the extent to which

由于医疗事故责任（medical malpractice liability）的最优水平取决于医疗保险体系所提供的激励机制，20世纪90年代管理式医疗（managed care）的兴起可能会影响责任改革（liability reform）与防御性医疗（defensive medicine）之间的关系。本文中，我们通过实证评估……的程度。