Medical Liability Reform

The current litigation system for compensating patients injured by medical negligence is expensive, slow, and does little to benefit the injured patients. Lawsuit abuse is driving doctors out of the medical profession, compromising patient access to care, decreasing the quality of care patients receive and generating higher health care costs for everyone.

NAIFA Health & Employee Benefits supports meaningful reform to reduce defensive medicine. This could be accomplished by adopting a system of peer approved practice protocols, which would establish guidelines for providers to follow for specific procedures and impose limits on a provider’s liability if such guidelines were followed in a non-negligent manner. Enacting medical malpractice and tort reforms could save billions of dollars.