Pending Legislation & Heath Care

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This paper reviews and discusses pending legislation or tort reform regarding health care services. According to the paper, the battleground involves doctors and trial lawyers, and is often anything but simple. The paper reports that the doctors argue that there must be limits placed on the damages a person can collect from them for malpractice, but naturally the lawyers do not agree.

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"Since personal injury lawyers usually take a percentage of what their client gets in a jury's decision or in a settlement, placing limits on the amount a person suing a doctor could collect would also limit the amount of income a personal injury lawyers makes in a year. They also dispute the assertion that doctors are leaving the state because of malpractice insurance rates. This view has been supported by the Democrats."
"So the agendas of the two sides are not really hidden at all. It, like so many other pieces of the legislation that goes through the legislative branch of a government, is all about money."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Senate Bill 1347 (TN). http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB1347.pdf
• Pack, Todd. "Business Column: Can apologies avert medical malpractice suits? State may find out. The Tennessean. April 18, 2007. http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007704180403
• Whitehouse, Ken. Med-malpractice deal within reach on Capitol Hill. NashvillePost.com. March 6, 2007. http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2007/3/6/medical_malpractice_compromise_on_the_horizon).

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