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13Health Safety: New statewide poll shows voters think medical malpractice costs pose big threat to the health care system
Filed Under (Health & Fitness) by health man on 13-03-2010
Tagged Under : health care, massachusetts medical, mccormack school, medical, medical society
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Waltham, Massachusetts – September 17, 2003 — A new poll released today shows that the vast majority of Massachusetts voters think the issue of medical negligence in health care is a major problem or crisis and shows that 'a large percentage of the public vote for limits on compensation for pain and suffering in malpractice cases.The survey was conducted by the McCormack School, University of Massachusetts / Boston and the survey of 402 registered voters, Massachusetts, between September 3 and 7.
The margin of error of plus or minus 5 percent, with the 95 per cent. The survey confirms the findings of previous local and national surveys.Lou DINATALE, health safety, Director, Center for State and Local Policy at the McCormack School, it was clear that the main message of the survey. Voters in Massachusetts now recognizes that the cost of medical malpractice are a threat to the system of health care, "he said. In addition, the question now seems to be what we characterize as the penetration of voters.
"It has reached the stage of being a political issue and could become a major campaign issue season.Among the survey results: – 83% believe that the issue of insurance for medical malpractice in health care today ' Today is a big problem or crisis – 74% favorable to limit the amount patients can be attributed to pain and suffering or damages non-economic in the trial – 68% believe that physicians leaving, health safety, the state due to reduced working environment for doctors is a serious problem, -% think that patients bring lawsuits against too many doctors.
Thomas E. Sullivan, MD, cardiologist and president of the Massachusetts Medical Society said, these results are entirely consistent with research and surveys we and others have undertaken in recent years. The fact is that responsibility has become a pivotal force for the doctors and the practice of medicine, and takes huge negative effect on physicians, patients and the health system. The good news is that the public begins to recognize cited this.Sullivan Medical Physician Society's Workforce Study and MMS Physician Practice Environment Index, which showed a rapid deterioration of medical practice in Massachusetts.
One common theme emerging from the two studies was the negative impact of medical liability in the working conditions of doctors, career choices, and patient access and treatment American Medical Association and many medical societies in the United States, including the Massachusetts Medical Society, marked the reform of medical liability as a top legislative priority. attempts to ensure a federal defense this year has failed, July 9 when the U.S. Senate passed a first patient Act 2003, even refusing to discuss the issue despite the adoption of legislation by the U.
S. House of Representatives. UU. earlier this year.The Massachusetts Medical Society has focused its efforts on reform at the state level, with the introduction last year of a comprehensive bill to reform the medical liability. The bill, health safety, contains seven major provisions, including the signing of a $ 500,000 limit on non-pecuniary damages, while economic damages such as medical expenses and lost wages would be fully covered. The law also contains other legal and financial improvements and a provision to increase patient safety through increased reporting by insurers involved in the school lawsuits.
The McCormack / survey results UMass Boston is not only few weeks before a public hearing on the bill before the legislative committee the Justice October 9. The results of the McCormack School / UMass Boston survey, developed in collaboration with the Medical Society of Massachusetts, validate, or are consistent with the results of at least four other national and local surveys. Locally, a survey of opinion dynamics of adults in Massachusetts taken in August 2002 for the Medical Society showed 80 percent of residents believe that the cost burden of malpractice in doctors is a serious, health safety, problem.
and Massachusetts Institute surveyed a new community in the state earlier this year showed that Bay State citizens noted how the health system functions as the third area in Rated need major improvement, behind affordable housing and roads and traffic. Nationally, a
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