The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 tackles many health care-related issues, but medical malpractice liability reform is not one of them. Despite being a perennial target of health care reform-with accompanying assertions that a medical malpractice liability crisis is corrupting the delivery of health care in the United States-only three short sections that made little substantive change to existing law were devoted to it in a bill that eventually totaled over 900 pages in length. This Article describes what the bill did, what it failed to do, and its likely and perhaps unanticipated consequences for the ongoing medical malpractice liability reform debate.
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World J Clin Cases
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