In an effort to reduce skyrocketing healthcare costs and increase access to justice for medically injured patients, Sen. Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) and Rep. Jason T. Brodeur (R-Sanford) are introducing today bold new legislation which would replace the state's current medical malpractice system with a no-blame, administrative model.
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D4PC Endorsed Patients' Compensation System Introduced In Florida Legislature, HeraldOnLine.com
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Dr. Hal Scherz: Trial Lawyers and Insurance Companies are True Beneficiaries of Medical System
Thursday, April 26, 2012
D4PC President, Dr. Hal Scherz, has a new article published at Townhall the explains how trial lawyers and the insurance companies are the real beneficiaries of our current medical system, a system that all too often diverts precious health care dollars from patient care into defensive medicine and into the coffers of the trial lawyers and the malpractice carriers.
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Healthcare's Vulture Capitalists, Physicians Practice
Monday, March 12, 2012
It has been quiet lately on the tort-reform front. So quiet, in fact, that one could be forgiven for thinking we had this problem licked.
Suing doctors is getting easier to finance, too. Possibly the most disgraceful and little-noticed development of the last few years is the emergence of hedge funds that actually invest in large malpractice lawsuits, taking a big chunk of any award out of the patient’s pocket. According to Forbes, such investors injected $1 billion into lawsuits, including med-mal suits, in 2010.
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