Pennsylvania Malpractice Numbers Ignored?
Posted by Clark Venable on 4/27/2007
I composed a polite letter to the editor of our local paper, the Patriot-News. It went something like this (exactly like this, actually):
"Title: Is Pennsylvania's Malpractice Crisis Solved? Maybe for trial lawyers.
Dear Editor,
Data just published by the non-profit, non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation at http://www.statehealthfacts.org/ provides facts to consider in our discussion of health care reform in Pennsylvania.
Based on data from the National Practitioner Databank, Pennsylvania ranks third in the nation in the number of paid malpractice claims per thousand physicians (http://tinyurl.com/22mppw). Pennsylvania ranks second only to New York in total payments for claims made during 2006--over $300,000,000 (http://tinyurl.com/26hh9p).
Please consider passing these facts on to your readers so that they may form their own conclusions about the state of Pennsylvania's malpractice system. I submit that being ranked second and third in the nation in two objective measures of malpractice payouts does not support those who contend that our malpractice crisis is 'over.'"
Dear Editor,
Data just published by the non-profit, non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation at http://www.statehealthfacts.org/ provides facts to consider in our discussion of health care reform in Pennsylvania.
Based on data from the National Practitioner Databank, Pennsylvania ranks third in the nation in the number of paid malpractice claims per thousand physicians (http://tinyurl.com/22mppw). Pennsylvania ranks second only to New York in total payments for claims made during 2006--over $300,000,000 (http://tinyurl.com/26hh9p).
Please consider passing these facts on to your readers so that they may form their own conclusions about the state of Pennsylvania's malpractice system. I submit that being ranked second and third in the nation in two objective measures of malpractice payouts does not support those who contend that our malpractice crisis is 'over.'"
Was it published? Nope. Oh, well.
It WAS published on Sunday, April 29th, 2007,
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