Healthcare

Experts Debate Relief from Rising Drug Costs

January 22, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">CNNFN - STREET SWEEP</p> <p>The lure of lower prices has led U.S. consumers to hop on buses headed north of the border, or to surf the Internet seeking out online pharmacies. Drugmakers and others say the practice is illegal and potentially harmful to consumers. However, not everybo</p>

Bush Calls for Curbs on Medical Malpractice Suits;

January 17, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Plan is viewed as a way to limit health costs. It would cap non-economic damages at $250,000, but stiff opposition is expected in Congress.</h3><p class="source">The Los Angeles Times</p> <p>Critics of the proposal argue that a cap on compensation for a patient's "pain and suffering" would be unfair and allow poor medical practice to go unpunished.</p>

Bush seeks medical malpractice reform

January 16, 2003 · Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">United Press International</p> <p>Groups representing trial lawyers and consumers were outraged, saying Bush's action would severely limit the rights of injured patients. They blame insurers for the current crisis.</p>

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 · Carmen Balber

<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>

Fairness for Injured Patients

Medical Board of California Announces Maternal Mortality Task Force

Patient Voices