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From Healthwatch:
An alternative might be what I'll call the Ryan-Obama proposal (since Paul Ryan and Obama have both suggested it, independently), which is to provide federal grants to state governments to study and implement appropriate reforms to their existing tort laws.
H.R. 5 is, by the way, the bill that led to this intra-party squabble during a markup in February:
A bipartisan association of state lawmakers is urging House Republicans to abandon efforts to overhaul the nations medical liability laws the most prominent piece so far of the GOP's efforts to replace the Democrats' 2010 healthcare law.
The states and not the federal government should decide on medical malpractice standards, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) wrote to House members this week.
The adoption of a one-size-fits-all approach to medical malpractice envisioned in H.R. 5 and other related measures would undermine that diversity and disregard factors unique to each particular states, the NCSL wrote to the House Energy and Commerce health subpanel.
An alternative might be what I'll call the Ryan-Obama proposal (since Paul Ryan and Obama have both suggested it, independently), which is to provide federal grants to state governments to study and implement appropriate reforms to their existing tort laws.
H.R. 5 is, by the way, the bill that led to this intra-party squabble during a markup in February:
At a Judiciary Committee markup, Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) accused Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) of proposing legislation that would violate the Constitution.
The panel was considering legislation sponsored by Gingrey, who does not sit on the committee and was not present, that would impose a $250,000 cap on non-economic medical malpractice damages. Poe, a former felony court judge and a member of the House Tea Party Caucus, said that violates the Constitution.
He also warned he'd vote against the measure if it imposes caps on states that don't want them.
"I got problems with that," Poe said. "I think it's a violation of the Tenth Amendment."