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A model for America - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a doctors' convention Saturday that Florida's medical malpractice crisis will be solved under his watch

A model for America - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a doctors' convention Saturday that Florida's medical malpractice crisis will be solved under his watch -- Posted by CB on 06-23-03 09:30

Gov. Jeb Bush told a doctors' convention Saturday that Florida's medical
malpractice crisis will be solved under his watch. Bush told about 1,900
doctors at a convention for the American Association of Physicians of Indian
Origin that the Legislature will keep meeting until an impasse over strict
limits on certain damages in malpractice lawsuits is resolved. The
Legislature returns to Tallahassee on Tuesday to attempt to reach a
compromise over the issue. The House and Bush maintain that the way to lower
doctors' premiums and keep them from fleeing the state or closing up their
practices is to put strict limits on non-economic damages in malpractice
lawsuits. The Senate resisted any caps until it passed a measure Thursday
limiting victims to $1.5 million in non-economic damages, such as
compensation for pain and suffering. Victims in the worst cases would be
exempted from that cap - although still limited to a total of $6 million.
The House and Bush are pushing for a more stringent cap - a no-exemptions
limit of $250,000 beyond actual damages. Senate President Jim King has
expressed some doubt that lawmakers, even with an extra week, would be able
to bridge the gap.
http://www.540wfla.com/main.htmlis
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Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may have
of him: for the Lord hath created him. - Ecclesiasticus 38:1
...city people shut themselves off from the processes of nature. They have
air conditioning, central heating, eat hothouse vegetables, decorate with
forced flowers, and even send their cats to a veterinarian to have kittens.
The result is that when nature does assert itself -- when illness, pain, and
death loom over their petty barriers -- your city dwellers are surprised and
annoyed. Their attitude seems to say, "This is all a mistake and tomorrow it
will be over" -- as though it were as simple as turning on a radiator to
make a room warmer. - Joseph A. Jerger, M.D.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical
profession. - George Bernard Shaw

Re: A model for America - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a doctors' convention Saturday that Florida's medical malpractice crisis will be solved under his watch -- Posted by Cary Kittrell on 06-23-03 11:51

In article "CB" writes:

The way to do this is not to cap malpractice awards, the way to
do this is to prevent what people who study this kind of thing
refer to as "The insurance cycle": whenever economic times
are hard, the insurance companies jack up doctors'
premiums in an attempt to make their own bottom lines look
a bit better. This has happened before: in the recession of
the early eighties (do you think there were bigger settlements
to lawsuits then?), during the recession of the early nineties
(do you think there were bigger settlements during to lawsuits
then?), and now. In the prosperous nineties, premiums went down (do
you think there were smaller settlements to lawsuits then?)

-- cary

Re: A model for America - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a doctors' convention Saturday that Florida's medical malpractice crisis will be solved under his watch -- Posted by CB on 06-23-03 12:21

"Cary Kittrell" wrote in message
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> In article "CB"
writes:
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Indian
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strict
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lower
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their
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> The way to do this is not to cap malpractice awards, the way to
> do this is to prevent what people who study this kind of thing
> refer to as "The insurance cycle": whenever economic times
> are hard, the insurance companies jack up doctors'
> premiums in an attempt to make their own bottom lines look
> a bit better. This has happened before: in the recession of
> the early eighties (do you think there were bigger settlements
> to lawsuits then?), during the recession of the early nineties
> (do you think there were bigger settlements during to lawsuits
> then?), and now. In the prosperous nineties, premiums went down (do
> you think there were smaller settlements to lawsuits then?)
>
>
> -- cary
>

Yes, after all isn't Liberalism systematic, incremental and progressive?

Re: A model for America - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a doctors' convention Saturday that Florida's medical malpractice crisis will be solved under his watch -- Posted by Stewart Millen on 06-23-03 12:24
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"CB" wrote in
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> Yes, after all isn't Liberalism systematic, incremental and
> progressive?

And that distinguishes it from conservatism...how?

Stewart

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Re: A model for America - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a doctors' convention Saturday that Florida's medical malpractice crisis will be solved under his watch -- Posted by CB on 06-23-03 13:10

"Stewart Millen" wrote in message
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> > progressive?
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> And that distinguishes it from conservatism...how?
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> Stewart

Morally, spiritually/Biblically, Judicially, honestly, economically,
politically, intellectually, scholastically, equitably, socially,
appropriately, constitutionally, pointy headedly and honorably

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Re: A model for America - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a doctors' convention Saturday that Florida's medical malpractice crisis will be solved under his watch -- Posted by Stewart Millen on 06-23-03 14:15
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"CB" wrote in
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> "Stewart Millen" wrote in
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>> "CB" wrote in
>> news:bd7jt0$hfq$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com:
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>> > Yes, after all isn't Liberalism systematic, incremental
>> > and progressive?
>>
>> And that distinguishes it from conservatism...how?
>>
>> Stewart
>
> Morally, spiritually/Biblically, Judicially, honestly,
> economically, politically, intellectually, scholastically,
> equitably, socially, appropriately, constitutionally,
> pointy headedly and honorably

Getting back to a real answer to my question, you're saying that
all those right-wing think tanks and conservative thinkers
aren't being systematic? That the past 30 years have the seen
the US being ruled by progressively conservative governments
that have incrementally implemented ever more conservative
policies?

Sure sounds like "systematic, incremental, and progressive"
to me.

Stewart

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