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Tuesday, March 03, 2009Medical Malpractice Amendments
SB 79 - Medical Malpractice Amendments passed second reading today (needs to be passed in the Senate once more before it heads to the House).
Click here to listen to the introduction from the bill sponsor, Senator Knudson, as well as the floor debate that ensued.
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4 Comments:
SB 79 has now passed it's 3rd reading. And it's a horrible idea! It would give virtual immunity to doctors, and reduce the standard of our healthcare. Is there a crisis in this state? Yes, an insurance crisis, not a medical negligence crisis.
Don't buy Misty's malarky. SB 79 was a common sense attempt at decreasing defensive medicine costs and preserve access specialists in the Emergency Rooms of Utah, at least it was until Senator Valentine twisted enough arms to amend it to death today. The bill is probably dead for this year, but it is still a good idea.
Giving Hospitals/doctors immunity from paying for stupid mistakes with your health/life is NOT "common sense".
Insurance companies will jack up their premiums regardless of whether or not a medical practitioner could be sued, and giving immunity against malpractice suites will NOT lower medical costs. If you believe that then you are living in a pipe dream.
Insurance companies are out to make money any way they can, and they use any excuse to wring money out of us and the doctors.
Telling the doctors/hospitals that they can make mistakes with human life and not pay for it is not the way to lower medical costs.
I don't get it. How will this bill lower medical costs and increase access for Utahans? By reducing the amount of tests? Defensive medicine is a bunch of hogwash.
In a study of the effect of malpractice liability on healthcare delivery,
the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation’s leading
nonprofit economic research organization, concluded there was
“very little evidence of physician exodus or widespread use of
defensive medicine” in response to malpractice insurance cost increases."
But forget about that for a second, who does this bill help? Doctors? If that is true and the Utah Senate passes this bill, will the Utah Medical Association and other malpractice insurers decrease their premiums?
This bill is nothing but a smoke screen by the medical community to further increase their profits and escape accountability while punishing the 1 patient a year that is harmed.
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