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Group aims to keep medical liability reform on political agenda.
2003 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) said on July 9, 2003, that it vows to keep medical liability reform high on the nation's political agenda after the U.S. Senate voted to defeat S.11, The Patients First Act of 2003.
ACOG believes S.11 would have ameliorated the nation's broken medical liability insurance system by imposing caps on non-economic (pain and suffering) damages and putting an end to merit-less lawsuits.
"Federal medical liability reform remains ACOG's top legislative priority," said the organization's president, John M. Gibbons, Jr., MD. "Though disappointed by the Senate's action ... , we must remain optimistic that reform will win passage in Congress [in 2003]. The current liability system is affecting women's ability to find a doctor and is a serious threat to their health care. This crisis is growing rapidly and women's health care is at the breaking point," he added.
Ob-gyns are particularly hard hit by the medical liability insurance crisis, says ACOG. Considered high-risk specialists, ob-gyns are sued an average of 2.5 times over their career, and one fourth will be sued during their residency. They are among the top three medical specialties with the highest insurance premiums.
"For example, in only 3 years, a Mississippi ob-gyn's liability premium increased from $30,000 to $197,000. 2003 rates for Florida ob-gyns have risen as high as $249,196, and in West Virginia, ob-gyns in some regions are seeing premiums as high as $182,600," reported Gibbons.
"Launched over a year ago, ACOG's Red Alert campaign warned ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Group aims to keep medical liability reform on political agenda.