Healthcare

Bush Back in Malpractice Debate;

January 16, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>President will renew the argument that limits on lawsuit payouts will curb medical costs.</h3><p class="source">The Los Angeles Times</p> <p>Consumer advocates argue that at least some of the fault for the increase in premiums lies not with doctors, or with lawyers representing malpractice victims, but rather with lagging returns on insurance company investments.</p>

FTCR’s letter to Dr. Richard Anderson – Chairman, The Doctors Company

January 14, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>RE: Publicizing His Annual Salary</h3>

THE BAD DOCTOR

January 10, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Bill Frist's long record of corporate vices</h3><p class="source">LA Weekly</p> <p>While TV gushed last week over the Republicans' new Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, intervening in a traffic accident, portraying the former heart surgeon as a "Good Samaritan," in truth the GOP has simply replaced a racist with a corporate crook.</p>

Malpractice speaker left out drug record

January 8, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Charleston Gazette</p> <p>An Elkins doctor who testified to Congress last summer about his high medical malpractice rates didn't mention his conviction for cocaine possession in the 1980s. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, is calling for Dr. Samuel Roberts to apolog</p>

DOCTORS PRACTICE UNDER PRESSURE;

January 3, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>MALPRACTICE COSTS STIFLING, SOME SAY</h3><p class="source">The Hartford Courant</p> <p>A walkout by West Virginia surgeons will increase pressure this year on state legislatures and Congress to try to control the rising cost of malpractice insurance, officials of medical associations said Thursday.</p>

Affordability is basic in health-care reform

January 2, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The San Francsico Chronicle</p> <p>California needs a system-wide plan to resolve growing inequities in health care. One middle-ground solution would be a public-utility model, which would strictly regulate profiteering in health care to achieve universal coverage and cost-efficiency.</p>

Frist Will Not Help Health Care’s Ills

December 27, 2002  ·  Jamie Court

<p class="source">The San Diego Union Tribune</p> <p>Unfortunately for the public, the doctor running the chamber, Sen. Bill Frist, typifies the GOP's new health-care strategy: care most about the health of corporations that elect you.</p>

Frist Will Not Help Health Care’s Ills

December 27, 2002  ·  Jamie Court

<p class="source">San Diego Union Tribune</p> <p>Unfortunately for the public, the doctor running the chamber, Sen. Bill Frist, typifies the GOP's new health-care strategy: care most about the health of corporations that elect you.</p>

State health care bind: Fixing inequities can be expensive

December 22, 2002  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The Sacramento Bee</p> <p>Maria Teresa Quiej Alvarez and Andrew Willis symbolize the two extremes of California health care: Have and have-not. Got and can't get.</p>

Attention on Sen. Frist turns to issues, his ties to HCA

December 22, 2002  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga Free Press</p> <p>Sen. Frist's likely election to the majority leader post already is raising new questions about his ties to HCA. The chain was founded by his father and is now run by his brother, Thomas Frist.</p>

CALIFORNIA MEDICAL LIABILITY INSURER HAS RATES PUT ON HOLD FOR PUBLIC HEARING

December 11, 2002  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">BestWire</p> <p>The second-largest provider of medical-liability insurance in California has had its 2003 rate request--originally approved by the insurance department--set aside as a consumer group requests public hearings into the need for the increase.</p>

OPINIONMAKERS – THE UNINSURED: LOS ANGELES TIMES OPINION PIECES ADDRESS ISSUE

December 9, 2002  ·  Jamie Court

<p class="source">American Health Line</p> <p>The Los Angeles Times today features opinion pieces by Ronald Brownstein, a Times columnist, and Jamie Court, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, on the problem of the uninsured.</p>