The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) held a panel discussion earlier this month, discussing medical malpractice reform along with a variety of other topics.

“The traditional political and policy battles over medical malpractice reform usually follow well-rehearsed scripts highlighting the relationships among the risk of lawsuits, defensive medicine and physician supply responses, and damage cap remedies,” the event description read. “Join AEI for a forum examining more recent research that suggests several empirical cracks in this storyline. Our panel will analyze fresh evidence on the direction and magnitude of medical liability’s causes and effects and then explore policy implications.”

AEI fellow Thomas P. Miller moderated the panel. The participants were:

• Michael Morrisey, health economist, professor and chair of the department of health policy and management at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health
• Anupam Jena, principal consultant at Precision Health Economics, assistant professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School, and attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital 
• David Hyman, H. Ross and Helen Workman Chair in law and a professor of medicine at the University of Illinois

Click below to read a more extensive summary or watch the full discussion on AEI's website: