Republicans Push Medical Malpractice Bill

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Republicans Push Medical Malpractice Bill

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans, looking at another possible defeat in their push to curb medical malpractice lawsuits, are portraying opponents as supporters of lawyers over families who need doctors in their neighborhoods.

"It's time for my colleagues to take a stand and decide whether they are with the mothers and the children or with the personal injury lawyers," said Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., trying to drum up votes for a bill to cap medical malpractice damages against obstetricians and gynecologists.

But Democrats, who have blocked several versions of the legislation, argued that the bill constitutes nothing more than a bailout for big insurance companies.

"Instead of looking at ways to reduce medical errors so that there would be fewer lawsuits, instead what they've said is: `We've got to help these big insurance companies.' Not help the individual states, not help the people involved, but help the big insurance companies," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

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Republicans Push Medical Malpractice Bill

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1. Disgusting....

"It's time for my colleagues to take a stand and decide whether they are with the mothers and the children or with the personal injury lawyers," said Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., trying to drum up votes for a bill to cap medical malpractice damages against obstetricians and gynecologists.



>>>Yeah, you are either with the "mothers and the children" or you are with the people who are truly helping the mothers and the children.

Tax break for the rich number 2,003,345,345,532,543

Thanks you repuke cocksuckers! I will just throw this with the dividend tax cut that really helped me out!

It's like they really hate poor people in this country.

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2. The Corporate Medicine Guaranteed Profit Plan - Another Name For MMB

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[Mel]

3. Medical Malpractice laws against women & children

Women and children would be limited under the law but men would not??
Men do not go to Obstetricians or Gynecologists.

This bill isn't fair for women or children (gasp)

Republicans are shameless do they really think it's fair that woman & children should be limited in their rights?

I'm with the women and children that are sometimes wronged to be able to hold a doctors feet to the fire if he or she does wrong! I'm for equal treatment for all!

What I haven't heard in this debate is why are Doctors that do wrong over and over allowed to continue to practice medicine? Where is a list of Doctors that do wrong?

Oh, yea that's right the AMA opposes such a list and lookie who's right along with them working against the people.

http://www.mercola.com/2000/aug/20/dangerous_doctors.htm
<snip>Public Citizen's book is the only publicly available list of physicians who have been sanctioned. They note that "a similar federal database, called the National Practitioner Data Bank, is kept secret by act of Congress."
The American Medical Association (AMA) opposes making this data bank available to the public Congressman Thomas Bliley (VA-Rep) plans to introduce legislation in the fall that would overturn the act by Congress that keeps the Practitioner Data Bank secret.</snip>

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4. Interesting case went to trial last week in Chicago

A mother was in the midst of giving birth when her OB called for an emergency C-section because the baby wasn't getting enough oxygen. The anesthesiologist was paged, and paged and paged to come to the OR to begin the procedure. It turns out the anesthesiologist was one floor below the OR having sex with a nurse. Because the procedure was not timely performed, the baby developed cerebral palsy and is now catastrophically injured. But, really, aren't we just sick and tired of these frivolous lawsuits?

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5. Pull out the old tired "malpractice insurance will go down" BS

And with it going down doctors won't be forced to move to China (or some other country they pull out of their ass) to continue to practice medicine.

The fact is malpractice recovery amounts have already been limited,and just like any good ole' insurance company will do they keep RAISING rates regardless of the new lower cap.

Its all BS driven by the Insurance companies.

David