$Billions of assets racked up by The Doctors Company over the years. Their attorneys and lobbyists are working overtime to save the $250k cap sacred cow in California I’ll bet.
Not to mention the executive salaries at The Doctors Company – which far exceed yearly what someone injured by malpractice could get for a lifetime of pain and suffering.
Bob, first of all, you don’t lower medical costs by preventing victims of medical negligence from holding their harmers accountable. The “cap” prevents victims from getting to court, and then if they do, limits their pain and suffering to way less than $250k.
You fix medical negligence problems by creating less medical negligence. By penalizing the negligent doctors and hospitals (not the victims), you make them more careful and thereby decrease the harm they cause.
How in the WORLD did anyone ever think it was better to penalize the victims instead of penalizing the people who do all the harm??????
So Bob, you think it’s more important to keep medical costs down than to make it safe for patients in the hospital, and make it so they can get to court to hold their harmer/killer responsible???
While I don’t believe pain and suffering are impacted by inflation and therefore think raising the cap from $250,000 to $1,000,000 is unnecessary, I do applaud monitoring care givers for alcohol and drug use — the same way we monitor others in this society. No one sector of our society is immune from substance abuse.
It has nothing to do with whether pain and suffering is “impacted” by inflation. Think of it this way.
The legislature came up with a figure in 1975 to associate with pain and suffering. That figure was $250,000. Let’s say they never had come up with it and were coming up with a figure today. To come up with a comparable figure to what they came up with in 1975, the amount would have to be figured for inflation because the value of the dollar has diminished with inflation.
Today, $250,000 is only worth about $57,000. So in 1975, the value would also have needed to be $57,000 in order for the two judgment values to be equal.
$Billions of assets racked up by The Doctors Company over the years. Their attorneys and lobbyists are working overtime to save the $250k cap sacred cow in California I’ll bet.
Not to mention the executive salaries at The Doctors Company – which far exceed yearly what someone injured by malpractice could get for a lifetime of pain and suffering.
Dr. Van Winkle and his “Emperor’s New Clothes” minions rake in salaries and bonuses that dwarf the $250k cap.
just watch the medical costs rise.
Bob, first of all, you don’t lower medical costs by preventing victims of medical negligence from holding their harmers accountable. The “cap” prevents victims from getting to court, and then if they do, limits their pain and suffering to way less than $250k.
You fix medical negligence problems by creating less medical negligence. By penalizing the negligent doctors and hospitals (not the victims), you make them more careful and thereby decrease the harm they cause.
How in the WORLD did anyone ever think it was better to penalize the victims instead of penalizing the people who do all the harm??????
So Bob, you think it’s more important to keep medical costs down than to make it safe for patients in the hospital, and make it so they can get to court to hold their harmer/killer responsible???
While I don’t believe pain and suffering are impacted by inflation and therefore think raising the cap from $250,000 to $1,000,000 is unnecessary, I do applaud monitoring care givers for alcohol and drug use — the same way we monitor others in this society. No one sector of our society is immune from substance abuse.
It has nothing to do with whether pain and suffering is “impacted” by inflation. Think of it this way.
The legislature came up with a figure in 1975 to associate with pain and suffering. That figure was $250,000. Let’s say they never had come up with it and were coming up with a figure today. To come up with a comparable figure to what they came up with in 1975, the amount would have to be figured for inflation because the value of the dollar has diminished with inflation.
Today, $250,000 is only worth about $57,000. So in 1975, the value would also have needed to be $57,000 in order for the two judgment values to be equal.