Per
News Tribute dated : November 2nd, 2005 03:00 AM
The
basics: I-330 focuses on reducing the medical communities’ malpractice
litigation costs, while I-336 seeks to
increase patient safety, reduce frivolous lawsuits and cut doctors’
malpractice premiums. Several I-336 provisions, supporters
say, would make health care safer. If medicine gets safer, backers
say, doctors will pay less for malpractice insurance. I-336 also
seeks to prevent insurance companies from charging doctors too
much and to strengthen procedures used to discipline doctors.
(1)
We
are concerned that frivolous lawsuits are driving up the cost
of healthcare for all of us, so many of us sent a message to Congress.
I am sure, State Governors, Our Congress, Officials
and State Representatives: they have heard from so many citizens
around the states. There is no difference in our state as well.
Frivolous
medical liability lawsuits drive up the cost of healthcare for
everyone. Without medical liability reform, physicians will continue
to move their practices to other states, emergency rooms will
keep closing, and your health care treatment options will become
more and more limited.
What
are we going to do about the rising cost of healthcare in this
country?
We
believe you'll come to agree that medical liability reform is
one of the best ideas out there. It's like cutting
the fat out of the healthcare system. And the only
ones who will miss it are personal injury lawyers, who are lining
their pockets while bankrupting the healthcare
industry.
Most
plans we've read about include simple provisions:
1) Allow patients to sue for unlimited economic damages (such
as future medical costs).
2) Cap non-economic damages at $250,000. These changes effectively
cut healthcare costs, and more importantly, help keep good doctors
in practice.
Without
medical liability reform, physicians will continue
to move their practices to other states, emergency rooms will
keep closing, and your health care treatment options will become
more and more limited.
