The Rootin’Est, Tootin’Est, Right-Wingin’Est Response To Obama’s Speech To A Joint Session Of Congress On Health Care.
Individual states will be subject to changes in order to test a better method of reducing medical malpractice suits and making them less of a burden on the health c are industry. NO!!!!…Bad doctors should still face losing their [...]
Thoughts On The President’s Speech
Both substantively and tactically, I think that the President made a smart move by mentioning medical malpractice reform….Republicans have a valid point about fear of lawsuits and the cost of medical malpractice insurance being a contributor to the rising cost of health care….
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Untitled
… reforms. Just six years ago, Texas was mired in a health care crisis. Our doctors were leaving the state, or abandoning the profession entirely, because of frivolous lawsuits and the steadily increasing medical malpractice insurance premiums that resulted. Two thirds of our state’s counties had …
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Mccollum Blasts Government-Run Health Option
Attorney General Bill McCollum, a Republican candidate for governor, injected health care into the 2010 campaign debate Tuesday by strongly opposing a government-run i … McCollum also said that one of the biggest problems still hobbling America’s health care system is the high cost of medical malpractice insurance….
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Procrustes Was An Egalitarian
… or no good reason: they are the government, private health insurance, and medical malpractice insurance….
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Obama’s Medical-Malpractice Opportunity
. . . On the other hand, there are some areas, like reducing the costs of medical malpractice insurance, where you do agree with me. … Perhaps the fault lies with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a lawyer given to quoting from Tom Baker’s…“Anyone who denies there is a crisis in medical malpractice [...]
The Last Universal Healthcare Reform President
… have to wonder why BO is not looking for this fraud right now. Some of the above points will stick in the throats of BO’s supporters but his abandonment of trial lawyers was not as complete since he only agreed to pursue tort reform for nuisance lawsuits that drive [...]
Medical Malpractice News
. . A major factor in rising health care costs is the ever-present threat to doctors and other health care professionals of being sued by trial lawyers looking for b … As a result, medical malpractice insurance premiums have zoomed into the stratosphere….. . Trial lawyers spend big money taking to the [...]
The Gaggle : Tort Reform: Obama’s Silver Bullet
I am not against tort reform, it reduces medical malpractice insurance by 10%-20% if the caps are low enough. However, several studies have shown that tort claims, including all awards, court costs and lawyors costs are less than …
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Obama’s New
… System and Yale Medical Group. The Federal start-up funds for health courts could come from a small assessment on medical malpractice insurance premiums. Over time, premiums would fall as compensation for injured patients became more predictable and the new system helped to clarify standards …
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