Posts tagged health care reform

• Utah Health Insurance Companies Defy Recession

  Bret Hanna | July 06, 2011 10:37 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Four of Utah's five largest health insurance companies posted healthy profits last year, with the second smallest of the five, United Health Care of Utah, being the only company posting a loss. The...

• Tired Retread Of Tort "Reform" Arguments

  Bret Hanna | February 24, 2011 11:50 PM | 6 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Oklahoma legislature is considering tort reform legislation like that which has and continues to be pushed around the country. As often is the case, local newspapers will editorialize on various...

• The Hypocrisy of Medical Malpractice Tort Reformers

  Bret Hanna | June 24, 2011 4:53 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Miscellaneous
  

  State tort laws have always been just that, state tort laws. States have always had the ability to develop their common law and legislation in ways that they have seen fit. But House Republicans...

• Straight Talk on Tort Reform from Texas

  Bret Hanna | November 23, 2009 11:20 PM | 1 CommentSalt Lake City, UT Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Texas passed sweeping tort reform legislation in 2003 that, to a great extent, eliminated medical malpractice cases in the Lone Star State. Jennifer Bard is the Alvin R. Allison Professor of Law and...

• Are Doctors Becoming More Progressive?

  Bret Hanna | June 01, 2011 6:13 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Miscellaneous
  

  According to an article that appeared recently in The New York Times, the politics of doctors may be changing as the mechanics of their practices change. The article notes that historically, doctors...

• GOP Just Doesn't Get Medical Malpractice "Reform"

  Bret Hanna | February 16, 2011 11:01 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A bill recently introduced before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee would would make a $250,000 cap on all pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice cases the law of the land for all 50...

• Utah And The Nation Need MORE Health Care Reform

  Bret Hanna | March 23, 2010 12:01 AM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Health care history was made yesterday in the nation's capitol but unfortunately, there are still some inequity issues that need to be dealt with. Even if the national health care reform bill...

• Tort Reform Myth Debunked - Damages Caps do not Lower Malpractice Insurance Premiums

  Bret Hanna | November 12, 2009 4:49 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  We've all heard the claims. Jackpot payouts in medical malpractice cases have caused malpractice insurance premiums to go so high that doctors are leaving certain specialties or leaving the...

• Tort Reform and Unintended Consequences

  Bret Hanna | October 15, 2009 8:15 PM | 10 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Medical care providers are people and people make mistakes - that's it, plain and simple, and the facts can't be disputed. An editorial which appeared this week in the Salt Lake Tribune offers the...