America Should Adapt New Zealand’s Method of Handling Medical Malpractice Cases

I’ve spent most of this summer driving across Oklahoma asking physicians how lawmakers should reform health care in our country (among other questions). As you might imagine, the answers are peppered across the political spectrum. A geriatrician adamantly supported a single-payer system that could grow from Medicare, which he praised; an internist wanted to tweak what we have, suggesting modifications in the same way she might consider adjusting the drug panel of a chronically ill patient. A...