Real malpractice is still being litigated. The lawsuit lottery has been shut down and many lawyer scum put out of business, which can only be a good thing.
The reason for the law was to bring down medical cost and I have yet to see it.
Wrong. The reason for the law was to prevent the medical profession from being driven out of the state by the greedy filthy plaintiff's lawyer scum.
The doctors pocket the savings and they live very well.
Good. Better them than the pirate lawyers. When we lived in Texas, my wife's OB-GYN paid more in malpractice insurance than she took home herself. I am delighted that she is taking money back out of the bulging pockets of the filthy lawyer scum.
-ccm
From the article.....
Supporters of the curb on jury awards had said that malpractice laws were responsible for shortages of doctors in rural Texas, specifically highlighting 152 counties that did not have an obstetrician. But an analysis in Texas Observer magazine found that as of September, the same number of counties remains without one. It also found that 124 counties have no obstetrician, neurosurgeon, or orthopedic surgeon.
Well we still have a shortage in poor areas.
When we lived in Texas, my wife's OB-GYN paid more in malpractice insurance than she took home herself.
I don't believe that for one moment. The average net take home of a ob-gyn is around 300k year.
From the article.....
His medical malpractice insurance alone was cut to $5,031 in Texas, from $11,300 in Maine last year.