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Attorneys flocked to St. Louis at the end of August, as they filed 1,300 lawsuits just before a new Missouri state law limiting lawsuit awards went into effect. "We had lawyers flying in from Kansas City and driving up from Arkansas," Circuit Clerk Mariano Favazza said. "Lawyers were standing in line 100 deep!" Read [The Springfield News-Leader]
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"This election destroyed a popular Karl Rove myth. The truth is that trial attorneys are winning, attacks on trial attorneys are backfiring and opponents of the civil justice system are losing."
The CEO of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America said.
"We have discovered that virtually all patients are willing to sign a contract in which they agree not to sue their doctors on frivolous grounds."
Jeffrey Segal, M.D, a board-certified neurosurgeon and the founder and president of Medical Justice Services, Inc., said.
"Low-risk obstetrics has been done here for 60 years, but not anymore."
Carl Hanson, chief operating officer of the county-run Minidoka Memorial Hospital in southern Idaho hospital's, explained as they get out of the baby business. Read
"I have children, and I don't know where they're at."
Rosalinda Elison, a former patient at the UC Irvine Medical Center’s fertility clinic, said after learning that that her eggs and embryos had been stolen and implanted in another woman who then gave birth to twins.
Read more You Don't Say, here.
$4.6 million
New York state grants available to expand the use of electronic medical records. Such initiatives have been hailed nationally as a way to cut medication errors, save money and improve patient safety. LINK
$700,000
Amount raised by Fairness and Accountability in Insurance Reform to oppose malpractice limits in Arizona. LINK
$450,000
Amount the Arizona Medical Association says Arizonans for Access to Health Care has raised to decide whether to push for montetary limits on lawsuits. LINK
Read more CRISIS BY NUMBERS, here.
Educators and state employees are right to be concerned about access to local hospitals and doctors under United Healthcare. Unfortunately, these concerns are just the tip of the iceberg.
Georgia’s health care providers should be equally anxious about the $2.4 million fine imposed last month by the Department of Insurance for UHC’s delayed reimbursement for as many as 80,000 claims filed by doctors and hospitals.
Not to mention the many multi-million-dollar settlements United Healthcare has paid in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and Illinois “ just to name a few” for alleged violations of the False Claims Act. Charges of double-billing and falsification of costs to both state and federal agencies should have given state officials and Governor Perdue long pause before UHC was awarded not one but two state contracts, with options to renew for the next four years.
Like an iceberg, United Healthcare is a mammoth insurance company with hidden hazards and controversy miles deep. Georgia state employees, educators, health care providers and taxpayers may be paying for the state’s shortsightedness for years to come.
Looks like Doctors don't hestitate to sue when they feel wronged. How would they have fekt if their damages had been "capped."
And who will ultimately pay for the millions awarded to the doctors?
The patients.
Will the doctors now lower prices?
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