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  • Read more: The Law & Economics of the VA Fiasco
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    The Law & Economics of the VA Fiasco

    By Alex Stein Over at the CATO blog, Roger Pilon discusses the unfolding VA fiasco that involves hospitals covering up their failures to provide acutely needed services to veterans and doctors working in a slowdown mode (as illustrated by an eight-person cardiology department that “sees as many patients in a week as a single private practice…

  • Read more: NPDB and Due Process
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    NPDB and Due Process

    By Alex Stein An aggrieved patient files medical malpractice suit against a hospital in which he was treated. The hospital and the patient subsequently settle the suit. Their settlement agreement states that the hospital settles the suit “for the benefit of” a physician who treated the patient. Because the patient did not sue the physician, the…