Tort reform working in Texas

Malpractice caps in Texas are causing a problem. So many doctors want to work there, there is a certification backlog:

So many doctors are seeking licenses to practice in Texas that the board is facing a certification backlog. As Express-News business columnist David Hendricks recently detailed, the board processed 2,446 licenses in fiscal year 2001. In fiscal year 2006, the number jumped to 4,026.
More doctors who earn their medical degrees in Texas are choosing to stay here. And more doctors from other states are seeking to move here.

(via PointofLaw.com)

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Anonymous
Not much of a surprise. When the populace pays the bribe and gives up their rights then of course the providers are going to perform their end of the deal. One doesn’t pay protection money to the local triad boss and yet still have their store burnt down by the same.
Matthew
The snarky, illogical and silly nature of this comment leads me to believe it’s our resident trial lawyer troll, so I’m going to treat it as such, since he’s long since lost the courage to use his sullied name…
Funny how before it was enacted, the trial lawyer borg was hell bent on selling the idea that this sort of reform doesn’t work and won’t lower rates or repopulate the medical field, but once the lives of everyone but lawyers are improved, we get “not much of a surprise”.
Go figure!
Anonymous
Ah, what would a day be like without the insane rantings of our dear friend Criminal Allopath?
Kinda like that loveable dotty uncle you bring out of the closet on holidays.
John J. Coupal
The nearby post tells of a physician shortage in Massachusetts.
I assume that Mass. physicians would not be allowed to practice in Texas because of the language barrier.
Anonymous
“Snarky, illogical and silly” are the perfect words to describe the self-serving pap in support of this nonsensical legislation. The plebeians, however, do get what they either willingly bring upon themselves or allow to have foisted on them. The subject poster can not help it if the analogy is lost on the second poster secondary to an intellectual dysfunction thereby rendering the post “illogical.”
Anonymous
I finally have figured it out, Crim has an unabridged dictionary bezoar.
Matthew
Yes, they received exactly what they brought on themselves, or was foisted upon them. More doctors, cheaper health care and fewer lawyers.
HALLELUJAH!!!!
If understanding and supporting good legislation is a dysfunction, I have no desire to be cured.
Anonymous
Where is the evidence of cheaper health care in Texas? This post is only about more doctors applying for certification.
And, if you look at the total number of physicians licensed in Texas v. the population, they have increased at about the same rate. Texas, even during the “crisis”, was building numerous new hospitals which were going to need additional physicians.
Lies, damn lies and statistics. Don’t just unquestioningly believe every stat that supports your preconceived notions. That’s the same thing many physicians criticize the autism-thimerasol advocates for.
Anonymous
Oh, and there’s not fewer lawyers in Texas. Those lawyers just went to work for the other side. Lawyers who have good trial skills and organizational skills, which top med mal lawyers undoubtedly do, never lack for work. It’s not like people all the sudden decided to be more careful once arbitrary caps were instituted.
Now Matthew, when you’re on the wrong end of someone else’s negligence (I know, you can’t believe it would happen to you) you’ve made it that much harder for you to find representation when their insurer tells you to get lost (Yes, I know you can’t imagine that happening either).
Matthew
Funny how often pro-plaintiff folks have arguments that boil down entirely to “how would you like it?” I know that that sort of thing was a great comeback when I was 9, but most of us have moved past that. Please join us and look at evidence, reason and principle. Let me know when you’re ready for at least middle school. Maybe even high school if we’re lucky.
First anon, looking at only statistics that fit one’s preconceived notions is something that virtually everyone in every political debate of any sort is accused of on a regular basis. Do you have anything more interesting or meaningful to say? I hope so.
Second anon, please refer to the first paragraph.
Or are you all the same trial lawyer? And by trial lawyer, I mean someone who was trained to make money by arguing only with statistics that support the side of the argument that financially benefits him the most?
Anonymous
“Funny how often pro-plaintiff folks have arguments that boil down entirely to “how would you like it?” “
Matthew, only those who believe themselves to be invulnerable don’t consider that aspect of giving up their rights.
“Do you have anything more interesting or meaningful to say?”
More meaningful than the actual evidence of growth in the physician population and the number of new jobs Texas has? I can’t imagine much more meaningful than that. I realize that you have to disregard actual evidence to hold onto your beliefs, but to call it meaningless just makes you look silly.
“And by trial lawyer, I mean someone who was trained to make money by arguing only with statistics that support the side of the argument that financially benefits him the most? “
Is that what you learned in law school and watching all the trials that you attend? Oh wait, you’ve done neither. That’s how you became such an expert on what lawyers do!
Anonymous
“And by trial lawyer, I mean someone who was trained to make money by arguing only with statistics that support the side of the argument that financially benefits him the most?
Please just answer the question, counselor.
Anonymous
It’s not a question. It’s just poor punctuation.

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