[quote=UCGal][quote=flu]What about mal-practice lawsuits and mal-practice insurance. It’s pretty expensive. Are there finally caps on this?[/quote]
California has had caps on medical malpractice since 1975. You can sue for unlimited MEDICAL costs if there is malpractice, but the non-medical costs (pain and suffering, etc) is capped. And that cap has not risen since it was first put in place.
The biggest issues I have with the bill is that it didn’t eliminate the anti-trust exemption and it didn’t allow for reimportation of pharmaceuticals. Those would have created real reform.[/quote]
It doesn’t matter how many times we quote the CA malpractice statute, no one ever believes it because they have been conditioned to scapegoat easy target – laywers. Some of the reasons for high costs in CA are due to high salaries, high expenses, earthquake retrofit mandate for all older hospitals, and the illegals who don’t pay.
