Senator McCain just received the Union Leader’s endorsement, and he’s on a roll with his straight-talk on the need for tort reform. Bravo:
“In every other industry when technological advances are implemented costs to the consumer decreases. This is not the case in healthcare.”“Because of the need for health care reform, medical malpractice reform is at least my second highest priority.”
“Every time there is new technology, doctors perform defensive medicine. I can’t tell you the number of tests that all of us in this room have taken just to so that doctors won’t be sued for malpractice. That is one reason costs go up.”
Concluding on this subject to an enormous round of applause, McCain said, “In a perfect world, the loser [in a medical malpractice lawsuit] would pay [legal and trial costs]. It would have an incredible effect.”
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Kevin, what exactly does he get? I thought you were opposed to damage caps. Is it just loser pays you’re a fan of? You know we already have that, right?
Your blog already has established that third-party payers are conspiring against you, so why now blame this problem on anyone else. If you pay huge insurance premiums, then they should pay; otherwise, do not not accept your payments.
anonymous
It looks like I’m changing from Huckabee to McCain.
b
I am a physician and the person who said we already have the loser paying for lawsuits has no idea what they are talking about. I have never lost a lawsuit and thankfully have not been sued that often yet I have not been reimbursed, nor has my insurance company. Yet my malpractice insurance keeps going up, up, up! Right now the system is a lottery and lawyers take almost any case because when they win big it pays for the losers. Damage caps and loser paying for damages would do a great deal to curb the problem.
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