This nurse lost her Mother the same way we lost Zachary- medical negligence. I am working on Zacharys story to add it to the website 4patientsafety.org, so that somehow we can get Jerry Brown to right the wrong he made in 1975 when he signed MICRA into law. In 1993 Jerry Brown wrote We have learned a lot about MICRA and the insurance industry in the seventeen years since MICRA was enacted. We have even witnessed yet another insurance crisis, and found that insurance company avarice, not utilization of the legal system by injured consumers, was responsible for excessive premiums. Saddest of all, MICRA has revealed itself to have an arbitrary and cruel effect upon the victims of malpractice. It has not lowered health care costs, only enriched insurers and placed negligent or incompetent physicians outside the reach of judicial accountability. For these reasons, MICRA cannot and should not be a model for national legislation. And yet, he is still in office and this is still a law.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:43:14 +0000
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