Pelosi Health-Care Bill Lacks Malpractice Reform – WSJ.com
You and I pay for frivolous law suits every time we walk into a doctors office. We also pay for expensive tests that the doctor knows he doesn’t need to treat us but he orders anyhow just in case he is sued so he can show that everything possible was done. Another way we pay because of the tort laws is with the lose of doctors. Doctors who just get tired of all the hassle and paper work and costs of practicing medicine. Because of these issues tort reform must be a part of any reform and lowering of costs for our health care. The Democrats disagree with this. So along with all the many, many things that are abhorrent about the Pelosi Monstrosity we can add one more:
House Democrats, who are using their bill to subvert reform that is already on the books in many states. Buried in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 1,990-page bill is a provision that provides “incentive payments” to each state that develops an “alternative medical liability law” that encourages “fair resolution” of disputes and “maintains access to affordable liability insurance.” Sounds encouraging. Read on, however, and you come to this nugget: The state only qualifies if its new law “does not limit attorneys’ fees or impose caps on damages.”
