Healthcare

Doctors’ e-mails suggested frustration before rallies, work stoppage

March 10, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>Some e-mails widely circulated among New Jersey doctors before last month's work slowdown urged them to "inconvenience patients" as they pushed lawmakers for help with rising malpractice premiums, says a California consumer group.</p>

How Insurance Reform Lowered Doctors’ Medical Malpractice Rates in California

March 7, 2003  ·  ConsumerWatchdog

This report shows how California’s landmark Proposition 103 has lowered Medical Malpractice rates for doctors across the state. It also shows how caps on damages...

Hype outraces facts in malpractice debate

March 5, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">USA Today</p> <p>Premiums are rising rapidly, but no more than other health care costs. They represent only a small slice of doctors' expenses. Even for the hardest-hit specialists, the most severe problems are concentrated in a handful of states.</p>

Malpractice Insurance: No Clear or Easy Answers

March 5, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The New York Times</p> <p>The greatest drops in premiums and, so far, the most consistent, did not come until after California adopted price controls in 1988, throwing into question the effects of the caps alone.</p>

Tough Call: Should There Be A Cap on Medical Malpractice Awards?

March 4, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">CNNFN-TV MARKET CALL</p> <p>Healthcare reform is a hot-button issue today inside the Beltway. President Bush and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are confronting the soaring costs of medical malpractice insurance.</p>

Family Denied Compensation Upon Wife & Mother’s Death

March 1, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

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Kaiser offers plan info, medical records online

March 1, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Managed Healthcare Executive</p> <p>Kaiser Permanente will let members and physicians have access to medical records and also provide members with key information about plan operations.</p>

Kaiser offers plan info, medical records online

March 1, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Managed Healthcare Executive</p> <p>Kaiser Permanente will let members and physicians have access to medical records and also provide members with key information about plan operations.</p>

“Assessing the Need to Enact Medical Liability Reform”

February 27, 2003  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<h3>Congressional Testimony of Harvey Rosenfield (February 27, 2003)</h3> <p>Harvey Rosenfield provided testimony on medical malpractice insurance twice before Congress in 2003. This is the second testimony provided to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health.</p>

New Jersey Doctors’ Strategy Email #1

February 25, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<!-- excerpt --><p>Read here internal emails from New Jersey doctors, outlining their strategy to delay and inconvenience patients to win political points and limit their legal liability.</p>

Consumer groups say damages cap will not lower rates

February 19, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>A cap on damages awarded for pain and suffering in medical malpractice lawsuits likely won't reduce insurance rates for doctors, consumer groups warned state lawmakers Wednesday.</p>

Kaiser Web Site will be just what the doctor ordered — and why;

February 17, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>To settle a consumer rights group's lawsuit, Kaiser Permanente will make its guidelines available online.</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>These guidelines, based on scientific evidence about which treatments work and which don't, are the best tools patients have for improving the quality of their medical care.</p>