Posted on 09/30/2025 5:29:31 PM PDT by CedarDave
Two days before lawmakers gather for a special session on Medicaid, Republican senators in New Mexico are urging their colleagues to confront what they say is an even more urgent crisis: the state’s broken medical malpractice system.
At a forum on Monday in Bernalillo, the Senate GOP’s five-member “Medical Malpractice Legislative Task Force” heard from doctors, patients, and state officials about the crushing burden malpractice costs have placed on New Mexico’s health care system. The message was clear: without reform, doctors will continue fleeing the state, leaving patients without critical care.
Republicans blasted Democratic leaders and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham for refusing to put malpractice reform on the agenda during the upcoming session. Brandt laid the blame squarely on the influence of trial attorneys—powerful allies of Democratic leadership who profit from the current system. “Trial lawyers are the reason reform is blocked,” Brandt charged, echoing a frustration long shared by physicians and patients.
That assessment was echoed by Kaye Green, CEO of a rural Roosevelt County hospital, who pointed to the lack of caps on payouts and attorney fees. Without limits, she said, New Mexico remains wide open for jackpot lawsuits — known as “jackpot justice” – that drive up insurance premiums and push doctors out. Trial attorneys run the show at the Legislature, with the most powerful committee chairs some of their most ardent supporters, if not trial attorneys themselves.
The statistics are grim. According to the National Physicians Institute, 248 doctors have left New Mexico in the past five years. The American Urological Association recently ranked New Mexico third-lowest in the nation for urologists per capita, with only 60 practicing in the state.
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Here in southeast New Mexico, where oil and gas production has lowered unemployment to near zero, near proximity to doctors and hospitals in Lubbock and Midland, Texas, has been part of the solution, if the patient's health insurance allows for treatment by out of state doctors. However, those in central NM have no such option.
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It’s a double-edged sword now. DEI doctors causing problems and good doctors paying the price. The medical profession is at fault as much as the ambulance chasers are.
Living here in the same area I can confirm it is nearly impossible to get care from a urologist. I had kidney stones and was initially told 9 months before I could see one. It’s a nightmare. Last year I had more stones while I was visiting kids in Virginia, ER there and surgery that night. Needed follow up a week later but had to come home, follow up appointment was scheduled for 2 months later. Was finally able to switch to another Dr who was a much better Dr.
The malpractice lawyers fund NM Democrats and nothing will happen until the Democrats are voted out. In other words, never.
Just another day in The Land of Disenchantment.
My wife suddenly got a very painful lump in her wrist. She went to a doctor.
The doc said it was a ganglion cyst and cut without imaging.
He confessed he never had seen like it before, but still proceeded to open the ‘cyst’.
After the opening, the sack was cut, and he said he had to do “a lot of of scraping the goop from the tendons and closed.
It was examined by another doctor who declared the ‘cyst’ was a sarcoma: cancer.
The cancerous cells are now entering her circulating blood.
She is now having her forearm
amputated in two days. The malignet cancerous cells are creeping up her arm. Left as is, she will die.
So, she has decided she wants to live longer with one arm.
I think there it a reasonable case for damages.
There is a good reason for lawyers that can have the know-how to prevail in cases like this.
Those lawyers are needed.
Sad, though, is the ‘cancer’ of unscrupulous attorneys that attack great doctors...a pox.
Sigh...
My wife suddenly got a very painful lump in her wrist. She went to a doctor.
The doc said it was a ganglion cyst and cut without imaging.
He confessed he never had seen like it before, but still proceeded to open the ‘cyst’.
After the opening, the sack was cut, and he said he had to do “a lot of of scraping the goop from the tendons and closed.
It was examined by another doctor who declared the ‘cyst’ was a sarcoma: cancer.
The cancerous cells are now entering her circulating blood.
She is now having her forearm
amputated in two days. The malignet cancerous cells are creeping up her arm. Left as is, she will die.
So, she has decided she wants to live longer with one arm.
I think there it a reasonable case for damages.
There is a good reason for lawyers that can have the know-how to prevail in cases like this.
Those lawyers are needed.
Sad, though, is the ‘cancer’ of unscrupulous attorneys that attack great doctors...a pox.
Sigh...
My wife suddenly got a very painful lump in her wrist. She went to a doctor.
The doc said it was a ganglion cyst and cut without imaging.
He confessed he never had seen like it before, but still proceeded to open the ‘cyst’.
After the opening, the sack was cut, and he said he had to do “a lot of of scraping the goop from the tendons and closed.
It was examined by another doctor who declared the ‘cyst’ was a sarcoma: cancer.
The cancerous cells are now entering her circulating blood.
She is now having her forearm
amputated in two days. The malignet cancerous cells are creeping up her arm. Left as is, she will die.
So, she has decided she wants to live longer with one arm.
I think there it a reasonable case for damages.
There is a good reason for lawyers that can have the know-how to prevail in cases like this.
Those lawyers are needed.
Sad, though, is the ‘cancer’ of unscrupulous attorneys that attack great doctors...a pox.
Sigh...
My wife suddenly got a very painful lump in her wrist. She went to a doctor.
The doc said it was a ganglion cyst and cut without imaging.
He confessed he never had seen like it before, but still proceeded to open the ‘cyst’.
After the opening, the sack was cut, and he said he had to do “a lot of of scraping the goop from the tendons and closed.
It was examined by another doctor who declared the ‘cyst’ was a sarcoma: cancer.
The cancerous cells are now entering her circulating blood.
She is now having her forearm
amputated in two days. The malignet cancerous cells are creeping up her arm. Left as is, she will die.
So, she has decided she wants to live longer with one arm.
I think there it a reasonable case for damages.
There is a good reason for lawyers that can have the know-how to prevail in cases like this.
Those lawyers are needed.
Sad, though, is the ‘cancer’ of unscrupulous attorneys that attack great doctors...a pox.
Sigh...
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