‘Despite Trump, Federal “Tort Reform” Makes A Hasty Retreat’

“Donald Trump’s 2018 health care budget proposal is loaded with all kinds of campaign talking points: repealing Obamacare, slashing Medicaid, severely cutting federal programs (like Children’s Health Insurance). But it also includes things that were never mentioned a single time during the election campaign, like stripping away the rights of patients severely injured by medical malpractice, or capping compensation to catastrophically-injured children. Given that many states consider such laws unconstitutional, medical malpractice proposals like this might seem an odd choice for Trump …” (more)

[Joanne Doroshow, Huffington Post, 30 May]

First posted 2017-06-05 06:28:30

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