I think people should know that people like George Bush and the Republicans are trying to impose medical malpractice caps on lawsuits for pain and suffering of limits up to $250,000. This includes injuries involving death, blindness, paralysis, loss of a limb, and many other horrific injuries that could happen to any of us. These people defend this in the name of health care costs; meanwhile, there are many studies which show there is no correlation between med mal insurance and lawsuit caps. People should know there are over 100,000 deaths attributed to medical malpractice - let alone all the people maimed by careless doctors, yet Bush and the Republicans support this, as they claim to support freedom and justice around the word. I'd like to know where is the justice to those innocent victims and families facing heartache due to medical malpractice - certainly 250k will not do the job. It will just promote more careless doctors to practice unsafe medicine.
How does any1 else feel?
2007-03-15 19:10:41 · 3 answers · asked by metsfan259 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Absolutely agree. In California we have a med mal limit on recovery for "pain and suffering", which applies even if the malpracticing doctor cut off the wrong leg, killed the patient or simply rendered the patient a quadriplegic. However, if you are in an automobile accident, there is no limit to what can be awarded by a jury for the injury. Makes no sense, is inequitable and a fraud on the public. When politicians talk about "tort reform" they tend to ignore the fact that every safety device in any automobile sold in the USA is a direct result of a lawsuit brought by an attorney against an automaker because the make failed to incorporate the latest safety features in a car. The American public will pay for safety. Our streets and highways are safer because of the lawsuits that have been brought to make them so. Look at the daily papers and see the examples of conduct by "captains of industry" to see how reliable they are, and how concerned they are about the "common person" who has been victimized by their co duct. Ouch.
2007-03-15 19:26:15 · answer #1 · answered by judgebill 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are two kinds of damages awarded by the Courts. Compensatory and Punitive. No Judge can instruct the jury as to how much the jury to award. The reason for that is, no Judge or Lawmaking body knows to just what extent damage has been done to the plaintiff in the case of Medical malpractice.
2007-03-16 02:36:21 · answer #2 · answered by gyro-nut64 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is just another case of people buying the legislation they want through bribes, I mean campaign contributions.
2007-03-16 02:33:28 · answer #3 · answered by Zarathustra 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋