On the recordSeptember 26, 2002
Two Stanford University economists have conducted two extensive studies using national data on Medicare populations and concluded that patients from States that adopted direct medical care litigation reforms, and I will say that again for my Florida colleague, that the study which adopted and concluded that patients from States that adopted direct medical care litigation reforms, such as limits on damage awards, incur significantly lower hospital costs while suffering no increase in adverse health outcomes associated with the illness for which they were treated.
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