Bad medicine: why Bush's malpractice policy will only help insurers.
American Prospect, The, July, 2003 by Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
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FOR THE THIRD TIME IN AS MANY DECADES, DOCTORS across the country are protesting rising medical-malpractice insurance premiums. The American Medical Association (AMA) is promoting its long-standing goal of medical-liability reform in the shape of a $250,000 cap on"pain and suffering" (noneconomic) damages in malpractice cases. Karl Rove must be thrilled. For an administration determined to deplete the coffers of Democratic trial-lawyer donors--and damage presidential hopeful Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) in the process--malpractice reform is a godsend.
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