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Actually, coporations are citizens--at least according to our crappy, corporate-servitude laws. - Comment by Mike Kole on Think Malpractice insurance doesn't cost YOU?
That's right, Mark. Business aren't run by citizens. Thanks for the clarity. - Comment by Mark Saleski on Think Malpractice insurance doesn't cost YOU?
that's right it is miserable. especially when you consider that businesses file four times more lawsuits than private citizens. - Comment by Jeremy Chrysler on Think Malpractice insurance doesn't cost YOU?
Shark, you make extremism a leisure activity, and for that I thank you.I didn't say that doctors don't contribute to their own problems by hiding incompetency, nor do I endorse measures which would give corporations a blank check. The lawsuit structure in this country is miserable. Anyone can sue anyone else for just about anything, whether he be little or big. If you think that's a good thing, well, I guess I just don't understand that... - Comment by Shark on Think Malpractice insurance doesn't cost YOU?
Oh, and they call it "tort reform" -- which is a way for them to finally remove the LAST OBSTACLE (consumer lawsuits) to an unhindered Fuck You, We-Gotta-Make-Money-At-All-Costs-Corporate-Culture.PS: The Unabomber was right. - Comment by Shark on Think Malpractice insurance doesn't cost YOU?
...Shark cratching chin and wondering what malpractice costs...And feh and double FEH! If doctors weren't part of some secretive cabal that refused to EXPOSE and OUT incompetent fellow-members, they wouldn't be faced with so many malpractice suits.BTW: Been in a hospital lately? If your illness/injury doesn't kill you, the fucking staff will. And good luck finding a real RN nearby; they've been 'downsized' and replaced by MA ("medical assistants") and LVNs.The problem IS NOT the consumers' ability to sue for compensation in a court of law. That's another ridiculous myth of the Far Right. - Comment by Jeremy Chrysler on Think Malpractice insurance doesn't cost YOU?
I'm not letting them off the hook, but I didn't mention the fact that their additional profits on the money could potentially increase cost as well. But the malpractice insurers, at least the ones that I have read about, do not seem to be profiting that much. Take this example from a Time magazine article: "St. Paul Cos., the nation's second largest medical-malpractice insurer, decided that it had had enough. As jury awards climbed, the company found in 2000 that it paid out $1.80 in defense costs for every $1 collected in premiums. The company lost nearly $1 billion in its medical coverage alone in 2001. "We just couldn't continue writing coverage with those kinds of losses," said spokeswoman Andrea Woods. "And looking ahead, the trend in jury awards was just going to continue to rise. We couldn't stay on for the ride and just hope that things would turn around." In December, St. Paul pulled out of the malpractice market completely, leaving doctors scrambling."I've also read of similar occurrences. The Time article is 2 years old, but you can read it here: http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1101020916-349096,00.htmlFor the record, I'm not calling anyone a villain in this case. I think that it's only human nature to go after large jury awards. The problem is, we all pay for it. - Comment by Big Time Patriot on Think Malpractice insurance doesn't cost YOU?
I find it most odd that with all these outrageous legal costs, malpractice insurance companies never seem to go bankrupt. In fact they usually seem to make a profit. A profit that gets added to all our medical bills. How is it that the profits of insurance companies are part of rising medical costs, yet money paid to people whom are injured or maimed by medical mistakes makes THEM the villains? - Comment by Eric Olsen on Think Malpractice insurance doesn't cost YOU?
Dawn's ob/gyn, an excellent and very popular doctor who saw us through both of her pregnancies and became a good friend as well, was literally driven from the state of Ohio by insane insurance premiums. he left for Minnesota right after Alex was born in December. Very sad, and a great loss to the area.
