Fact-checking the reasons for proposed medical malpractice caps
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Florida lawmakers could soon add caps on damages for medical malpractice. So, how has that worked out in other states? What’s Florida’s medical malpractice climate really like? Here’s our fact check. In this episode of What’s Brewing, investigative reporter Jenna Bourne looked into how this could affect you and your doctors.
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Thank you so much for your work, Jenna Bourne. Solutions have been offered and not a hint of reply from Senator Yarborough. If someone feels they much move because they are unsure of their medical skills, is that a bad move for Floridians? And yes, absolutely Floridians fantasize about 6% insurance increases. I had both my home and my inherent home's insurance go up 200+ percent.
The definition of economic damage is insufficient for recovery of related expenses. Who must pay the decedent's mortgage to keep it from foreclosure as a result of malpractice? This and other economic expenses are not considered for recovery.
This will attract even more bad doctors since this protects them. I just experienced a botched surgery and have NO RECOURSE in Florida. I have a very unique background that enables me to be a great help with this issue. Patients need some kind of protection in this state. I'm willing to testify with the evidence I have. Any politician who needs this evidence can contact me.
Jenna Bourne, excellent story! Thank you for your continued coverage of what is going on in Florida (the only state with this law). Had "Free Kill" not passed in 1990, or had this barbaric law been repealed LONG ago, my child who was killed in a hospital in Orlando in March of 2023 may still be here. Newsflash to supporters of this law (doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and their lobbyists): There would not be a "universe of claimants in Florida" if the claimants were not victims of medical malpractice or wrongful death. A physician has to write a letter of merit stating that the treating physicians fell below the standard of care and, as a result, their patient was harmed or killed. You want to stop a universe of claimants from filing medical malpractice or wrongful death claims? STOP NEGLIGENTLY HURTING AND KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO ARE COUNTING ON YOU!
P.S. Someone should enlighten the emergency room physician who claims she moved away from Florida where she was born, raised, and where all of her family is, to practice medicine in Texas as a single mom because of the medical malpractice caps. In Florida, our emergency room physicians are "protected" by Florida's "Good Samaritan Law". If this physician wants to come home and be "doubly protected", she can work in a Florida emergency room in one of the MANY Florida hospitals that has "Sovereign Immunity". She wouldn't need caps if she is considered a "Good Samaritan", but if she still wants caps she can work as a "Good Samaritan" in a hospital with "Sovereign Immunity". How does she not know?! * scratching my head *