Polls are showing a majority of Americans are in favor of reforms to how malpractice suits are handled.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS157376+10-Sep-2009+PRN20090910
Passing tort reform will have a positive effect on Insurers bottom line. No more will they enter a court room wondering how high the verdict can go. Nevermind whether the doctor is inocent or guilty. Most will agree doctors are being charged too much for malpractice insurance. While it would be nice to believe stopping frivolous lawsuits will result in doctors premiums being lowed...yes believing in good. Like when you was a child and believed in Santa, and the tooth fairy.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/michelle-mello/files/litigation.pdf
Neat how if a lie is told long enough, and by credible people then people will begin to believe the lie.
Too Full
This is a good idea
Now if you can convince your congressmen and women to vote for
TORT reform ~then the matter should be settled
But millions of dollars were put in the pockets of lobbyist to buy your
representative loyalty~~who will win in this tug of war?
elect_rob_tudor
Dems do not want Trot reform...most lawyers are Dems and that is their gravy boat..and it WILL lower premiums it is only gullible fools that think Obama is right
Jay
I think that there are three sides here. The insurer, the doctor and the consumer. Neurosurgeons in Florida now pay 40% of their salary for malpractice insurance, and they're probably top-notch professionals. The cost of this insurance is passed on to healthcare consumers. But when something happens like Swedish Hospital staff mistaking a bottle of antiseptic for anesthesia and injecting it into a patient during surgery, is it a frivolous suit? The patient lived two weeks before dying. I think that if awards are reduced, insurers will find reasons to continue exhorbitant premiums. Their actuaries will tweak stats if necessary. Ultimately, the consumer will pay the cost.
POLITICK;
i don't see how tort reform will help when most if not all of the insurance companies fall under big tent of the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
example is this
if Sony was selling a t.v. at a high price in Wyoming, and that same t.v. was cheaper in Washington. (but you couldn't buy it unless you lived in Washington)
if the government made it legal for you to go across state lines and purchase that t.v.
how long before you think it would take before Sony would just raise the price to the Wyoming level....
don't let the snakes fool you they plan on doing that....
http://www.ahip.org/content/default.aspx?bc=36|60
http://www.bcbs.com/about/academy/
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