Posts tagged rights

• The Health Care Bill: Constitutional or Unconstitutional?

  Mike Ferrara | March 23, 2010 7:58 PM | 38 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Opponents of the health care bill that was signed into law today by President Obama are already arguing that it’s not constitutional. Many people are asking where the US...

• Medical Malpractice Caps Only Protect Bad Doctors and Rich Insurance Companies

  Camryn Hansen | July 17, 2011 4:54 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In his recent op-ed discussing the malpractice caps in his state of West Virginia, trial attorney Paul Farrell Jr. likens the caps to protections for drunk drivers. “Protecting bad doctors...

• Formerly Sued Doctor-Turned-Congressman Spearheads Medical Malpractice Bill

  Mike Ferrara | February 11, 2011 2:54 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Rep. Phil Gingrey (R, CA) was an obstetrician for 30 years before being elected to Congress in 2002. Now, he’s taking the lead on a bill that would severely limit payments to patients who have...

• Health Insurance Mandate Was Originally a Republican Idea

  Camryn Hansen | March 29, 2010 7:28 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Most health care opponents who violently object to the mandate in the recently passed health care bill that nearly every American must have health insurance or face a tax penalty probably...

• Crisis in the Health Care System Won’t Be Resolved by Reforms in the Legal System

  Mike Ferrara | March 20, 2011 7:17 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In 1999, a study by the Institute of Medicine found that as many as 98,000 Americans are killed by medical errors—most of them preventable—each year. In 2000, the Journal of the American...

• Surprise! The Tort Reformers are Hiring Lawyers.

  Mike Ferrara | March 27, 2010 8:48 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Earlier in the week, Anthony Tarricone, President of the American Association for Justice, published an article in the Huffington Post that makes a great observation. Before the health...

• Tort Reform in the Health Care Bill – A Penny Saved; 100,000 Lives Lost

  Camryn Hansen | February 28, 2010 9:11 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Maybe you’ve heard the claims of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which has estimated that reforming our medical malpractice system could save the country $55 billion...

• Doctor Removed Baby’s Bladder by Mistake; Thought it was a Hernia

  Mike Ferrara | February 22, 2010 3:47 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A pediatrician in Manchester, England accidentally removed 90% of a baby girl’s bladder after mistaking it for a hernia during what should have been a routine surgery. ...

• Medical Malpractice Reform: A Doctor’s Perspective

  Camryn Hansen | October 28, 2009 6:58 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  If you’re getting mad about the mainstream media’s perpetual refusal to fact-check, telling you that So-and-So says X while another So-and-So says Y but refusing to tell you...

• The Third Leading Cause of Death is…Doctors?

  Mike Ferrara | March 28, 2012 4:32 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  That’s right…research is showing that doctors in America kill roughly 225,000 people every year. This makes doctors the third leading cause of death after heart disease and...