Here is a web-site with many links on the subject of medical malpractice.

http://malpractice.blogspot.com/

Bush and his insurance buddies would like to remove your ability to recover damages for bad medicine.

I thought they already accomplished that by fighting against the Patients Bill of Rights. Bush boasted during his first run for the presidency that he was responsible for the bill for Texans, then reneged for all Americans after he was elected. Is it still in consideration?

The torts reform issue is still hanging out there. At some point it will be raised again.

Aetna was fortunate enough to settle a huge class action lawsuit in May 2003, primarily with physcian associations but it cost them a bundle. The settlement actually produced some good things. However it's not likely Aetna and the huge health care profit monsters will let tort reform die.

i read up a little on tort reform and malpractice last spring or summer, because our local paper, very pro-business and conservative, was making such a stink about it. i discovered that HMO's are a part of the problem (some doctors went on record to say HMO's are the biggest problem), yet the paper, in four different articles, failed to even mention HMO's.

So very true. HMOs are monsters, but look at who they are. Aetna, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Kiaser Permente, All big insurance as well. Imagine some administrative clerki managing your health some 2500 miles away from a book of so called heath diagnostic procedures.

That's exactly why tort reform must not happen.

Here is a web-site dealing with HMO issues, tort reform and health care reform.

http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/healthcare/

That's really a cheap politics played by Bush. I don't think so ,it is still in consideration.
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shinyallard
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