We cannot debate the potential for medical liability reform to bring down health-care costs in any meaningful way without realistic cost estimates.
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You have to do all that to a standard of accuracy that will satisfy government regulators and medical liability lawyers when something goes wrong.
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We must pass medical liability reform, and those reforms should eliminate lawsuits for doctors that follow clinical guidelines and adhere to patient safety protocols.
Skyrocketing medical liability premiums are forcing physicians to limit services.
You need some assets to match against that medical liability.
Attacking the unnecessary costs in our current system starts with implementing comprehensive medical liability reform, so when doctors are in exam rooms they are thinking about their patients, not about ordering more tests in case somebody tries to sue later.
We would -- we've got plans to lower cost, to change purchasing models, address medical liability, insurance accountability, chronic and preexisting conditions, and access to affordable care for those with those conditions, insurance portability, expanded access -- but not doing it with creating more government, more bureaucracy, and more cost for the American taxpayer.
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But the point would be that billions in medical expense liability would be lifted off the backs of Americans for a relatively cheap cost.
But a free and open legal system like ours is bound to be subject to a certain number of abusive holdup suits, and not just by patent trolls, but also by product liability trolls, medical malpractice trolls, and shareholder fraud trolls as well.
If the courts agree with him, tobacco, asbestos, medical-malpractice and product-liability suits would all be unaffected.
The average award for medical malpractice has risen, as have liability premiums.
Reed medical editors spotted that hospitals' largest legal liability was the result of nurses giving the wrong drugs to patients, so they created Virtual Clinical Excursions, an interactive CD dubbed "Nursetendo" in which a virtual kidney patient goes into shock and dies.
Reed's medical editors saw that hospitals' largest legal liability was the result of nurses giving the wrong drugs to patients, so they created Virtual Clinical Excursions, an interactive CD dubbed "Nursetendo" in which nurses administer drugs virtually to a kidney patient who eventually goes into shock and dies.
One ray of hope for states seeking to bridge their health care funding gaps: Unlike pension benefits, which are often constitutionally guaranteed, states have considerable leeway in adjusting medical benefits and thus the ability to reduce the liability side of the equation.
Doctors who shun email cite concerns ranging from privacy and security issues to liability, inconvenience and the risk of miscommunication of important medical information.
Medical doctors have long had difficulty finding malpractice coverage yet patients have not limited their liability.
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Included in the annual Medicare Trustees' report are separate actuarial estimates of the unfunded liability for Medicare Part A (the hospital portion), Part B (medical insurance) and Part D (prescription drug coverage).
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Patients have not because medical care is too critical to risk any reduction in the quality of care a limitation of liability might foster.
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