Actually. No. Texas already DID the kind of "tort reform" - taking away the right of patients mauled by incompetent doctors - you guys talk about. Health Care costs didn't go down even a tiny little bit.
Report: Texas' tort law has failed to reduce health costs, attract doctors
Cute, your "source" is a pay-site one has to register with to read from 2011.
Ten Years of Tort Reform in Texas: A Review
July 26, 2013 13 min read
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The New York Times observed:
Four years after Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment limiting awards in medical malpractice lawsuits, doctors are responding as supporters predicted, arriving from all parts of the country to swell the ranks of specialists at Texas hospitals and bring professional healthcare to some long-underserved rural areas.
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So
The Wall Street Journal,
The New York Times, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Medical Association have all agreed that HB4 worked to achieve its goals.
The reform bill’s most significant achievements have been increased access to health care and an unanticipated positive economic impact on the Texas economy. By the end of 2013, 10 years and three months after the effective date of HB4, the number of licensed physicians in the state will almost have doubled.
[13] It is anticipated that Texas will have somewhere close to 60,000 doctors to care for its citizens, almost twice as many as it had in 2003. The number of physicians in Texas is now growing at twice the rate of the state’s population—a statistic that helps prove the success of HB4’s reforms in increasing access to health care.
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A Tale of Two States
In 2003, Texas physicians were paying about the same malpractice rates as were doctors in New York. Physicians were struggling to pay their malpractice premiums and keep their practices open. A crisis in access to health care was facing both states.
Texas chose to adopt reasonable, common-sense lawsuit reforms. As a result, the malpractice insurance premiums paid by Texas doctors have fallen by more than 60 percent on average. Consequently, most Texas doctors are paying less than half of what they were paying 10 years ago.
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In contrast, malpractice premiums in New York have increased by 60 percent. As a result, almost 2,000 physicians have moved their practices from New York to Texas.
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Texas has balanced its courts, improved its economy, increased access to health care, and provided remedies to those who have been wronged as well as protected the rights of the innocent. Texas should stand its ground and rebuff efforts to undo one of the foundations of the Texas economic miracle, and other states should look to Texas’s 10-year successful reform as an example to follow.
Ten Years of Tort Reform in Texas: A Review
Look, we realize you are a racist **********, you don't need to remind us.
Yes, when people of color can't get the kind of good health care white people can get, they WILL die younger. This is a bad thing for most decent human beings, but I don't think you understand that concept.
And STILL, you have nothing, whatsoever, to support your childish accusation. I state FACTS, you continue to post.... Come back when you grow up and have something to support your failed opinions.
