- As a point of reference, my mother who is 90 and from
Maine had been visiting us for the past three weeks and flew home yesterday.
The gent who meets her plane in Portland told her on the ride up to Waterville
that his sister-in-law and seven others she knew who were all OB-GYN doctors
were all pulling out. The reason? Their malpractice insurance premiums
were unaffordable. One was $70,000 per year. And where are they contemplating
heading? Laos, Philippines, and Thailand had all made welcoming offers
for their services. Remind you, this is Maine - not your mainstream heavily-populated
urban type state!
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- Check around your own state. I'll bet you've got a similar
situation. Congress has made our social fabric everywhere easy plunder
for trial lawyers.
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- In effect, what our government is doing is driving private
medical practices out of the country. And, also keep in mind, that the
Republican congress has had more than four years to change this. What will
Americans do? Why, look to government for a solution, of course, the same
government that gave us the problem in the first place!
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- Bill
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- Comment
- From Leaflady
- 7-12-4
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- Hi Jeff,
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- The writer of this obviously has bought into the push
to blame all lawyers for the rise in health care costs and malpractice
insurance. What he and probably most other people do not understand is
that the insurance industry drives the rising cost of malpractice insurance
through the deceptive practices used to claim need for rising rates. In
the current political arena, corporations rule the roost.
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- Doctors have to take insurance in order to bill for third
party payment. If they stop taking insurance then costs come down because
you do not have to have a staff of people to deal with the game playing,
payment withholding antics of the labor heavy insurance company. These
companies also play many games to delay payment and use other obfuscating
techniques. Why do you think that people working for some corporation
now need to pay more and more of their own health care costs?
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- This could change once the people fighting for tort reform
realize it is the health care corporations and the insurers as much as
it is the legal establishment that is party to all of this, and it is also
the person who has insurance but does not understand they would be better
off with Major Medical only and pay out of pocket for health care, and
also take more personal responsibility for their own health.
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- Gayle
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