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The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums / Ronen Avraham, Leemore S. Dafny, Max M. Schanzenbach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avraham, Ronen.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15371.
- NBER working paper series no. w15371
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.
- Summary:
- We evaluate the effect of tort reform on employer-sponsored health insurance premiums by exploiting state-level variation in the timing of reforms. Using a dataset of healthplans representing over 10 million Americans annually between 1998 and 2006, we find that caps on non-economic damages, collateral source reform, and joint and several liability reform reduce premiums by 1 to 2 percent each. These reductions are concentrated in PPOs rather than HMOs, suggesting that can HMOs can reduce "defensive" healthcare costs even absent tort reform. The results are the first direct evidence that tort reform reduces healthcare costs in aggregate; prior research has focused on particular medical conditions.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2009.
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