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Health care issues: Making health care cheaper by limiting lawsuits
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 1 day ago
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Would restrictions on medical malpractice lawsuits mean cheaper health insurance? Republicans rally around the idea that the health system would save substantial money if limits were placed on frivolous lawsuits by patients or their families, and on the...
Tags: health care, Minneapolis, Health Medical Pharma, Tort law, Politics, Defensive medicine, Health insurance, Tort reform, Malpractice, Medical malpractice, American Medical Association
Medical malpractice reform steers debate off course
Gamba :: Gabon | 2 days ago
Credibility The debate over the Obama Administration's push for major changes to the American healthcare system has taken a perilousturn with the introduction of medical malpractice tort reform as part of measures being debated in Congress.
Tags: medical malpractice, malpractice reform, malpractice claims, medical errors, malpractice insurers, Gabon, Gamba, Health Medical Pharma, Tort law, Defensive medicine, Patient safety, Medical error, Tort reform, Insurance, Health care in the United States
Sanford's lawyers defend use of aircraft
Columbia :: SC :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Originally published Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 12:07 AM Sanford's lawyers defend use of aircraft South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's attorneys argued Tuesday that the two-term Republican only used state aircraft for official business, adding that...
Tags: Mark Sanford, AM Sanford, South Carolina House, House Judiciary Committee, House Judiciary Impeachment Subcommittee, legislators resume, Columbia, Politics, Sanford, Impeachment, Sanford North Carolina, Business Finance, Maryville, Tort reform, Labor, Lee County North Carolina, Impeachment in the United States, United States House of Representatives, Sanford Florida, Georgetown Washington D.C.
Is the President Too Good for ObamaCare?
Toronto :: Canada | 8 days ago
Credibility He has even indicated that his passion for universal health care is so strong that he might forego ambitions for reelection rather than back down. He and other liberal politicians have tried to frame the issue as a moral one, a battle in which Democrats...
Tags: ObamaCare!, health cared, Barack Obama, Canada, Toronto, Health Medical Pharma, Politics, Luo people, Social Issues, Punahou School alumni, Tort reform, Democratic Party
Hot Button
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Soon-to-be White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer used the Obama administration's official blog to attack conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend for a column he wrote about President Obama's health care...
Tags: health care, Mr. Krauthammer, Mr. Pfeiffer, Senate, Mr. Obama, care reform, White House, Washington, Health Medical Pharma, Politics, Barack Obama, Healthcare reform, Social Issues, Charles Krauthammer, Healthcare reform in the United States, Health care reform debate in the United States, Health insurance, Tort reform, Labor
Dan Walters: California cap in malpractice cases an issue
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility The version of a national health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through the House contains a provision that would push but not quite compel California and other states with malpractice damage caps to repeal them. A little history: During...
Tags: California, health care, Jerry Brown, malpractice cases, Congressional Budget Office, national health, Sacramento, Health Medical Pharma, Attorney's fee, Tort law, Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, Tort reform, Malpractice, Medical malpractice, Insurance
State delegation backs congressman's call for patient safety
Columbia :: SC :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility A short but fiery speech made on the floor of the House of Representatives has raised the hopes of patient safety advocates across the nation...Rep. Bruce Braley, a second-term Democrat from Iowa, gave a last-minute speech about medical errors moments...
Tags: Bruce Braley, patient safety, medical errors, Jim Himes, House of Representatives, health care, U.S, Iowa Trial Lawyers Association, Consumers Union, Rosa DeLauro, Columbia, Health Medical Pharma, Tort law, Medical error, Medical terms, Tort reform, Disaster Accident, Medical malpractice
Jaime Harmon: People do want health care reform
Tōkyō :: Japan | 11 days ago
Credibility Most of the people I know, myself included, have had extreme hardships due to the current state of health care in this nation. I have had my own personal struggles with medical bills, though I have never been without insurance. I have had friends with...
Tags: health care, Japan, Tōkyō, Health economics, Healthcare reform, Social Issues, Labor, Health Medical Pharma, Healthcare reform in the United States, Health care reform in the United States, Tort law, Universal health care, Health insurance, Tort reform, Human Interest, Healthcare, Health policy, Tort
Charles Krauthammer: Kill these bills, then do health reform right
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility The United States has the best health care in the world -- but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health-care bill (as with its 2,014-page House counterpart) is that it wildly compounds...
Tags: health insurers, Senate, Wisconsin, health care, tort reform, House, Pittsburgh, Healthcare, Health economics, Social Issues, Healthcare reform in the United States, Health insurance, Health policy, Uninsured in the United States, Insurance
Lawyer: 'Lawsuit abuse' group is tool of big business
Anaheim :: CA :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility We wrote recently about a report released by California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, showing that handful of local governments in California spent more than a half-billion dollars dealing with lawsuits over a two-year period (including $14.2 million...
Tags: lawsuits abuse, big businesses, CCALA, california citizen, California, medical malpractice, Anaheim, Tort law, Frivolous litigation, Tort reform, Lawsuit, Law Crime
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