by PPN | Apr 16, 2014 | California, New York, News
AG Kamala Harris helps the trial bar try to sneak one past voters. One of California’s few emollients for employers is its limit on “pain and suffering” medical liability judgments, which has improved access to medical care and held down health...
by PPN | Apr 15, 2014 | New York, News
Medical liability reform will ease doctor shortage Kudos to The News for reporting on the doctor shortage in upstate and Western New York. Unfortunately, the article cited “experts” saying that the reason we are facing a doctor shortage is that upstate New York lacks...
by PPN | Apr 13, 2014 | News
ORLANDO — The medical liability system in the U.S. is dysfunctional for physicians and their patients, but healthcare systems that have enacted successful reform offer hope for the future, according to a report from the American College of Physicians (ACP)....
by PPN | Apr 8, 2014 | District of Columbia, National, News
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) today introduced a bill clarifying that sports medicine professionals who travel outside their primary licensed state to provide care for the athletes will be covered by their...
by PPN | Apr 3, 2014 | News
President Obama might be thrilled that 7.1 million people signed up for ObamaCare. But doctors have good reason to hold their applause. Back in June 2009, Obama told a gathering of the American Medical Association that he was “looking at a range of ideas”...
