Posted On: January 24, 2006, 1:51 pm CST

Posted By: J. Terry

The responsibility of control lies in the hands of the general public at hand. In Washington State the I-336 would have offered the following should it have passed:

Strengthened the state commission charged with disciplining negligent doctors and adds citizen members to its board.

Eliminated secrecy agreements that bad doctors use when settling cases to hide their medical negligence histories.

Tracked malpractice claims and provides the public with access to the information.

Required the state to investigate any healthcare provider who has paid three claims of $50,000 or more in a five-year period. Three judgments in 10 years could result in disciplinary action or a revoked license.

Forced insurance companies to publicly justify rate hikes to protect good doctors from insurance price gouging.

Strengthened our civil justice system by holding attorneys accountable by requiring them to file a certificate of merit, and sanctions lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits.

Made sure that injured patients continue to be able to have their day in court.

I-336 provides real solutions for better safer healthcare by holding everyone accountable: insurance companies, healthcare providers and the courts.

Last doctor I had for Medical Malpractice, oops failed to diagnose a woman's cancer for 2 ½ half years, perforated a woman's colon so she had to use a colostomy bag for several weeks (but he fixed it, skippy), oh and removed a woman's uterus by mistake. Oops, my bad? First claim paid out an excess of 50K.

So until the general public take similar action and responsibility of our own insurance and health care costs as well as Doctors not ignoring their colleagues ahhh…boo boos… kindly stop whining or do something about it.