Pltf’s bar controls the State legislature, evidently, and they are now confronted with the foreseeable results of their rapacious policies toward the healthcare community.
I might add the proposed solutions seem a little Orwellian to me – as for instance, tilt med school entrance exams to favor those who might be more inclined to open practice in Illinois – in other words volunteer for continued fleecing by the Chicago pltf’s bar – I suspect the low loss ratios down-state are not the problem.
Isn’t it interesting that they don’t propose anything that would actually reduce the incidence of malpractice itself.
Only about 2 or 3 percent of Illinois physicians, most of whom are “repeat offenders” have been responsible for over half of all the malpractice payments over the last 20 years. Instead of reducing compensation to injured patients, it would make more sense and would save more money if the licenses of the relatively few “repeat offenders” who cause the bulk of the problem were restricted or revoked so they couldn’t keep repeating their malpractice and injure or kill more patients.
The real malpractice problem is that there is too much malpractice itself, Tort reform simply treats the symptoms; it doesn’t solve the real problem.
I have seen this in other places, most particularly West Virginia. When people can’t get a doctor (particularly an OB/GYN) and have to travel (perhaps even out of state) to get one, then it hits home that the system is out of balance. Only then do you get the votes and the pressure to bring about balance in terms of medical malpractice and caps/liability standards.
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Pltf’s bar controls the State legislature, evidently, and they are now confronted with the foreseeable results of their rapacious policies toward the healthcare community.
I might add the proposed solutions seem a little Orwellian to me – as for instance, tilt med school entrance exams to favor those who might be more inclined to open practice in Illinois – in other words volunteer for continued fleecing by the Chicago pltf’s bar – I suspect the low loss ratios down-state are not the problem.
Isn’t it interesting that they don’t propose anything that would actually reduce the incidence of malpractice itself.
Only about 2 or 3 percent of Illinois physicians, most of whom are “repeat offenders” have been responsible for over half of all the malpractice payments over the last 20 years. Instead of reducing compensation to injured patients, it would make more sense and would save more money if the licenses of the relatively few “repeat offenders” who cause the bulk of the problem were restricted or revoked so they couldn’t keep repeating their malpractice and injure or kill more patients.
The real malpractice problem is that there is too much malpractice itself, Tort reform simply treats the symptoms; it doesn’t solve the real problem.
I have seen this in other places, most particularly West Virginia. When people can’t get a doctor (particularly an OB/GYN) and have to travel (perhaps even out of state) to get one, then it hits home that the system is out of balance. Only then do you get the votes and the pressure to bring about balance in terms of medical malpractice and caps/liability standards.