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Bottom Line Of Tort Reform Not A Plus
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
Legal blogger, Bob Kraft, cuts to the bottom line of Tort Reform.
The False Choice: Doctors Or Accountability
The consumer group Texas Watch has produced an excellent article on tort reform in Texas, and specifically about the recent constitutional amendment that essentially took away the rights of Texans to sue medical providers for meaningful damages. The article is titled The False Choice: Doctors or Accountability, The Real Impact of So-Called Tort "Reform" in Texas.The bottom line, as so many of us tried to warn consumers before the election, is that medical care is no more available now than before "reform," insurance premiums have not decreased significantly, and medical malpractice victims are now barred from recovering full damages in court. The only beneficiaries of Tort Reform are the big insurance companies.
Does anyone believe that the insurance industry worked so hard to restrict the rights of the wrongfully injured in order to make medical care more available and to reduce insurance company profits?
The drumbeat for Tort Reform has been well-orchestrated and financed by an industry that makes its money by denying or reducing claims. Insurance companies could do that the old fashioned way, by defeating each claim in the courthouse, or they could effectively bar the courthouse door.
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Thanks for picking up my post. It's too late for Texas -- consumers have already been sold out by the politicians. But maybe if we keep spreading the word, voters in other states will know to resist so called "tort reform."
Bob Kraft
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at February 9, 2007 10:47 AM