No. “Tort reform” does not improve access to care and physician shortages result from factors having nothing to do with liability. A 2021 book published by the libertarian and free market think tank, Cato Institute, found no evidence that physicians choose to practice in a state because the state caps damages, noting, “Physicians’ location decisions simply do not seem to respond very much to damage caps." Many studies show that if there are “access to care” problems, the reasons for this are unrelated to malpractice.
