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Monday, April 5, 2010

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Please vote if you get a minute.

http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=3215&query=TOC

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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Joe Kirby: Those pushing med-mal tort reform as key to undoing ObamaCare are praying to wrong 'God'

by Joe Kirby
Columnist

03.28.10 - 12:00 am

Conservatives around the country hoping to overturn ObamaCare after its passage last week are praying for a political "miracle cure." And this foe of ObamaCare hopes they find it.

But here's a warning: Tort reformers (or tort "deformers" as some have taken to calling them) are praying to the wrong "god." That is, they have made a big mistake, and seem poised to continue making it - that of putting the supposed need for medical malpractice reform at the center of any reform agenda. But it's not an issue that resonates with much of the public. And even more telling, the Georgia Supreme Court gave tort reform efforts the back of its hand last week, ruling that any cap on a jury's award of damages violates the Georgia Constitution.

Labels: Law, Malpractice, med mal, medical malpractice, Reform, rights, tort, trial |

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Monday, March 29, 2010

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New Law Deals Setback to Malpractice Foes

By ASHBY JONES

The health-care legislation has dealt another blow to a movement seeking to limit the amount doctors have to pay in medical-malpractice suits.

As a result, tort-overhaul advocates, who battle the well-organized lobby of plaintiffs' lawyers, are struggling to find ways to fight back.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Tort Reform = Legal Socialism.

Tort Reform is socialism because it allows for bigger government, and results in the damages caused by one wrongdoer to be spread over the entire population (when the wrongdoer doesn't pay).

Otherwise the taxpayer gets stuck with the costs through programs like Medicare and Medicaid, resulting in higher health insurance premiums, and higher taxes.

The purpose of a lawsuit is to place the financial burden on the wrong doer and not on the family or the tax payer. Lawsuits make the community safer for all citizens by holding defendants accountable for the harms and losses that they cause.

Lets keep our citizens in charge through juries and not Socialized Justice!

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

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A 1999 Institute of Medicine study that showed that as many as 98,000 deaths a year can be attributed to medical errors in the USA.

This finding has led to a recent Medicare policy change that has brought into critical focus the fact that hospitals and medical staffs have continued to fail to reduce medical errors. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that it would no longer pay hospitals for the extra costs of treating injuries, infections, or other complications caused by preventable errors that the government formalized in the term, Never Events.

Click here for the full text article written by Never Events experts, Robert Chabon, MD, MPH, JD and Brian Heller, PhD. http://www.hcqsupport.com/images/Health_law_article_Jun08.pdf

If you are interested in finding out about experts who can identify, analyze, educate and testify on hospital quality issues in general and Never Events in particular, contact us at 419-461-2520 or see www.hcqsupport.com.

Robert Chabon, MD, JD, MPH http://www.hcqsupport.com/aboutus/robertchabonmd.html

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http://www.brianhellerphd.com/resume.html

http://www.hcqsupport.com/aboutus/brianhellerphd.html

Labels: georgia, GTLA, med mal, medical malpractice, Reform, tort |

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