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Coalition includes ACOG: specialty societies push tort reform.(News)
SAN ANTONIO -- A new and rapidly growing specialty society coalition called Doctors for Medical Liability Reform is poised to wrest the helm of the tort reform campaign from the American Medical Association.
With $10 million in its coffers so far, Doctors for Medical Liability Reform (DMLR) plans an aggressive television campaign during the 2004 election season with one goal in mind: to change the balance of power in the U.S. Senate to guarantee passage of a federal medical liability reform bill.
The House of Representatives has on several occasions passed medical liability reform modeled after California's Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA), which puts a $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages and limits attorney contingency fees. The sticking point has always been the Senate: 49 Republicans favor tort reform and 48 Democrats oppose it, allowing them to use procedural techniques to block debate on the bill. Sixty votes are needed to override a filibuster.
Dr. Stewart B. Dunsker, a neurosurgeon from Cincinnati, is heading the DMLR.
The group has already hired a public relations company that will direct an "aggressive, controversial campaign with the goal of getting this issue on 'Meet the Press,' "The O'Reilly Factor,' and 'Larry King Live,'" Dr. Dunsker said at a town hall meeting on professional liability reform at the annual meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. The STS is one of five DMLR member societies, each of which has pledged $1 million to fund the 2004 action plan.
Other $1-million donors are the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. The American College of Cardiology pledged $500,000, and the North American Spine Society pledged $100,000, according to Dr. Dunsker.
At an STS policy forum held after Dr. Dunsker's presentation, Dr. Alex Little, professor and chair of surgery at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, and a member of the STS Workforce on Health Policy, Reform, and Advocacy, said the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Dermatology had also joined the new coalition and agreed to donate undisclosed amounts.
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