In a recent op-ed piece, the CEO of the New York State Health Foundation proposed setting up patient compensation funds as part of a comprehensive reform package. What he failed to specify was who would supply the funding.
If the doctors and insurers were to kick in without raising their rates, the idea sounds promising. But not if the public is expected to be the funding source.
A better suggestion is to put on the Internet the names of all doctors in the state who have been sued for malpractice in the last 15 years, the amount of any settlement or dollar award to the injured party and any action taken by the state medical society to chastise the defendant in the action.
If the public is given the legal right to look at the malpractice record of doctors in advance, the amount of malpractice litigation would greatly decrease.
Unfortunately, the lobbyists working for the doctors control the state Legislature.
The Golden Rule states "He who has the gold rules."
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