document.write(' | ');document.write("Tim");document.write("
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10/29/2004 | ");document.write(' | ');document.write("Your editorial misses the impact of inept political heirarchies in NIH and CDC. The vaccine fiasco is an insurance problem but also NIH management is a big culpret. I am a healthcare consultant and see many problems resulting from the poor management and obtuse political heirarchies at CDC and NIH.");document.write(' |
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');document.write(' | ');document.write("Bob");document.write("
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10/25/2004 | ");document.write(' | ');document.write("Thanks for the discussion on the problems with the rising cost of medical malpractice insurance. The issue almost seems like another form of national lottery. We all pay higher medical bills so that a very few can collect a big payoff. ...Bob");document.write(' |
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');document.write(' | ');document.write("jim");document.write("
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10/23/2004 | ");document.write(' | ');document.write("I am simply aghast at the fact that your segment reviewing price caps on pain and suffering awards did not mention the truth. You conveniently held back information that in those states where price caps have been introduced, there has been NO change in run-away premiums, except in those states where insurance reform has taken place (as in California). So how do you conveniently mention California, but not pursue the topic more when Susan Lee reminds you of the insurance reform taken place in California? Obviously, you know the results of capping the pain and suffering awards, but you want to help the corporate shrills win in the coming election.");document.write(' |
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');document.write(' | ');document.write("julie");document.write("
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10/23/2004 | ");document.write(' | ');document.write("I will be interested to see if malpractice insurance companies decrease premiums for physicians in states where malpractice caps are put in place by voters. Then we may see if what we are being told by the profit oriented insurance company is true. And, we may see whether health care access and delivery improve in those states with caps.");document.write(' |
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');document.write(' | ');document.write("John");document.write("
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10/23/2004 | ");document.write(' | ');document.write("Your medical mal feature was a piece of baloney 1. Do you really believe that defensive medicine will end if there are caps? The term is a catch-all for the system whereby doctors and hospitals rip off third-party payors. 2. You failed entirely to mention the broken system of licensure and discipline of incompetent doctors. When one of yours is killed or maimed by one of these, what's the appropriate cap? 3. You also conveniently managed to only brush against the coincidence between declining equity markets and the increase in Dr's insurance rates. You should examine the absurd Supreme Court decision that held that insurance was not interstate commerce and therefore not subject to federal regulation. If conservatives are going to call for the federalizion of the states' common law of malpractice, then the logical corollary is to take over regulation of medical malpractice insurance and the licensure of MD's. ");document.write(' |
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