According to the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, 27 %, more than 1 in 4, Medicare patients who are hospitalized experience some degree of harm due to medical negligence. Rather than doing something to improve patient safety,...
The Tea Party understands that tort reform is really just a way to take away the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. http://voices.legalexaminer.com/medical-malpractice/tea-party-leader-challenges-texas-tort-reform.aspx
The Republican alternative to the Affordable Healthcare Act is to raise even more barriers to injured patients pursuing claims against health care providers who injure them. Yet the number of claims and payouts continues to decline, so where is the malpractice crisis?...
