Archive Report
Archive Report
Effect of Litigation on Health Care
Strike for Increase in Malpractice Lawsuitsd
The current escalation in medical malpractice insurance rates poses a threat to health care in America. Doctors are indignant that premiums have been doubling and tripling, and some have organized to fight back. In Southern California, a group of physicians has warned it will strike in protest of an increase scheduled to take effect Jan. 1. There seem to be no easy answers to this multi-layered problem in which the patient is the ultimate loser. It has been tackled, however, in several states and it promises to be high on the agenda in many of the 37 legislatures that meet in January.
As early as 1969, a congressional committee had warned doctors, hospitals and insurance ...