Malpractice insurance is just killing doctors...
It must be hell to be an obstetrician....
Despite these results I don’t think we did the right thing. Instead of implementing caps on jury awards I would rather we had abolished class action lawsuits and imposed the loser pays rule. And I think those changes should apply to all civil suits, not just medical malpractice.
“Maybe the states can act to make needed changes even if the federal government can’t.”
Federalism is a beautiful thing. It’s like the free market for government. Now States will start competing for these doctors just like the insurance companies in Texas are competing for them.
"Maybe the states can act to make needed changes even if the federal government won't...."
There, that's fixed.
One of my neighbors is a doctor. He's been talking about moving to Texas for this reason for a couple of years now.
Ah, capitalism at work. Better than government involvement, isn't it?
Ah, capitalism at work. Better than government involvement, isn't it?
Well, I don’t think the libs need worry. They’ll just ask the new congress to make laws FORBIDDING doctors to move to TX. /sarc off
Unfortunately, this has attracted the most incompetent doctors to Texas. The cap on damages is for patients who die from malpractice and there is no economic damage. So the very young and very old are not considered valuable enought to their families to warrant a financial settlement. My elderly father who died in the ICU had very little done by the hospital and doctors to keep him alive. Too much to be gained if he died and too much to lose if he lived! What a position for the medical community to be in.
I recently changed careers to staffing and over 50% of the new jobs being created in Texas are medical related. Even with the expansion of drilling activity and resurrection of closed fields the job growth is dramatically out pacing even the energy sector.
BUMP
Texas is doing a lot right. The state unemployment rate is 4.1 with a rate of 3.8 in the Ft Worth/Arlington area.
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