Comments on: Bowles-Simpson commission proposes med-mal reform https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/12/bowles-simpson-commission-proposes-med-mal-reform/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:15:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Defense Marketing Works https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/12/bowles-simpson-commission-proposes-med-mal-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-109880 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:15:38 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=20455#comment-109880 How about improving patient safety? If doctors and hospitals stop butchering over 100,000 individuals per year to death as a result of medical negligence, wouldn’t that begin to close the deficit on healthcare spending?
How about eliminating frivilous defenses?

]]> By: Country Thinker https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/12/bowles-simpson-commission-proposes-med-mal-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-109515 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:54:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=20455#comment-109515 The problem is the Commission merely recommends damages caps. That doesn’t begin to address the root of the problem, which is too many frivolous suits that proceed at great expense due to our extraordinarily liberal and expensive discovery rules. Damages caps are essentially subsidies for frivolous suits.

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