Posts tagged obama

• Tort Reform Has No Place In Health Care Reform

  Wayne Parsons | September 17, 2009 2:53 PM | 103 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  President Obama needs the support of all of us in regard to the efforts by the insurance industry to sneak tort reform into the health care bill before Congress. No back room deals with the...

• CBO Report On Tort Reform And Health Care Flawed

  Wayne Parsons | October 12, 2009 4:42 PM | 14 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Orin Hatch may have gotten the headline that his powerful insurance industry CFO's wanted but the headline isn't supported by the data in the latest CBO report on tort reform and health care....

• Obama makes case for healthcare reform in speech to doctors.

  Wayne Parsons | June 16, 2009 2:59 PM | 9 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  President Obama yesterday outlined his healthcare reform plans in a speech to the AMA in Chicago. The story was covered by all three network newscasts, though it took second billing to reports on...

• Consumer groups, trial attorneys criticize GM, Chrysler bankruptcy plans.(2)

  Wayne Parsons | June 03, 2009 8:08 AM | 4 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Hill (6/3, Swanson) reports, Consumer groups and trial lawyers are crying foul over the Obama administration's bankruptcy plans for General Motors and Chrysler because those plans would...

• HHS Tort Reform Study Grants Proposed By Obama To Reduce Malpractice Costs

  Wayne Parsons | September 18, 2009 4:27 PM | 3 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The AP (9/18) reports that on Thursday the Obama Administration announced $25 million in grants for states and health care systems to experiment with alternatives to costly medical malpractice...

• Christopher Sanders Died From Medical Malpractice - His Mom Laurie Asks Doctors to Be Accountable

  Wayne Parsons | October 02, 2009 12:17 PM | 2 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In an op-ed in the Charlotte (NC) Observer (10/1), Laurie Sanders, who settled a medical negligence case arising from the death of her son, Christopher, wrote: Lobbyists for the medical and...

• Jim Dean and Democracy For America Identify Democrats in Congress Who are Cutting Deals With The Insurance Industry

  Wayne Parsons | July 02, 2009 2:28 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Meaningful Health Care Reform is being sabotaged by democrats who have close ties to the insurance industry. I have written about this before as have others and I encourage all Americans to look...

• Please Mr. President, Don't Sacrifice the 7th Amendment To Get Health Care Reform - That Is The Old Way Of Washington Politics That You Told Us You Were Going To Change

  Wayne Parsons | June 14, 2009 4:52 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  You can help make a difference in the health care reform debate – and I ask you to help. Now is the time to weigh in! Your rights are at stake. As Congress and the President prepare to...

• Obama undoes Bush pre-emption policies.

  Wayne Parsons | May 21, 2009 2:21 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  The AP (5/21, Yost) reports, The Obama White House on Wednesday undid a Bush administration policy that used federal regulations to undermine a wide range of state health, safety and environmental...

• Federal Departments and Agencies Announcing Regulations that Pre-empt State Laws Won't Do So Without a Sufficient Legal Basis

  Wayne Parsons | May 20, 2009 7:39 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  All Americans can celebrate the breaking news regarding a landmark achievement that was announced today in Washington D.C. From now on, the regulatory preemption of state common law will be strictly...