Malpractice reform; the Dutch health system

Darshak Sanghavi on How to reform the broken medical malpractice system . The point is not that malpractice doesn't happen, but that right now the tort system works like a tournament, producing a... go to the people who experienced actual malpractice) yet "rarely holds providers accountable for substandard... last year on one third of medical services, including hip replacements and diabetes ...

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iphthime

More healthcare details

...care insurance mandate. There are other ways to reform health care without violating our Constitution and our ...across state lines, tackling existing government waste and fraud, and reforming medical malpractice laws (tort reform) to stop unwarranted lawsuits that force doctors to order unnecessary procedures ...to reverse course. Let’s fight for the reform that makes sense for Americans before it’s ...

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amandageist

Tort Reform

Assuming it would lower cost of care collectively.. Would you support a federally mandated limitation on the amount that medical practioners can be sued for malpractice? Do you agree with the idea that victims of medical malpractice are entitled to compensation, but should not profit from damages suffered?

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thequestionclub

Tort Reform....It won't save you any money

Our own Senator Hatch wants tort reform, to reduce the expense of malpractice insurance which he believes will help reduce the...s say we do pass some sort of reform. What is to suggest that money saved ... and took trips to exotic places. Unless tort reform requires a reduction in charges to the... many as 98,000) people die from medical errors every year. That more people than ...

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duckspeaker

Where is Healthcare Reform Going?

... none of the proposed healthcare reform packages does anything to target health costs directly. Tort reform hasn't made it into the packages yet (and malpractice claims and insurance come up ...-ration- that is, avoid getting medical care because it's unaffordable ... For the people that healthcare reform is supposed to help, that ... anything provided it has "heathcare reform" in the title. One final...

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redneckgaijin

GOP Health Care Plan - MUCH better

... ten years. The CBO found that the Republican provision to reform medical malpractice liability would result in $41 billion in savings and increase revenues by $13 billion by reducing...why not do that, and then see what else needs doing? Tort reform? Check. Getting hard-to-insure people covered? Check. Enabling small businesses to provide coverage to their ...

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hawkfist

News Clips

... discussed issues ranging from healthcare reform to President Obama's refusal to ... at Democratic proposals for healthcare reform and said the United States needs to reform medical malpractice laws to deal with ... Republicans have countered the Democrats' reform efforts with several plans of ... that we've seen. . . No tort reform, no junk lawsuits. It's... if in fact we were to have real reform of medical ...

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hunterkirk

Dysfunctional relationships, healthcare, and you

...state of efficiency. One obvious possible reform would be to ban (or at...marketing for prescription drugs and regulated medical devices. That is to say, ... to the public nor to medical professionals), nor would they be ... amount of relief (TBD) from malpractice insurance premiums. - For any person ...- I would like to include tort reform here, but I think ... I am an advocate of tort reform, I'm not going ...

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tober

Information snacks from the outside world

... Lipton's bow as well. Medical Snack: HPV appears to be ... to make changes to medical malpractice and tort laws, so that ... much money insuring themselves against malpractice suits, and don't have ... help defend them against a malpractice suit should one occur. This...how much doctors pay on malpractice insurance, and how frequently they...only one problem - changing malpractice and tort laws wouldn't save...

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News Clips

...they say now. 4) Health Care Reform, Support for Plan Hits New Low...nationwide now favor the Health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional...these voters approach the health care reform debate fearing that they have more...jury awards for medical malpractice claims and think that tort reform will ...% believe passage of health care reform will increase the deficit. Another is...

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