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Fighting back for injured patients.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-MAR-03
Format: Online - approximately 846 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Americans know from personal experience that the insurance industry has too much control over our health care system. The industry controls patients' access to treatment, the quality of patient care, how doctors practice medicine, how much doctors get paid for their services, and what doctors pay in overhead and operating expenses. Yet this problem is not unique to the United States.

I recently read a newspaper article about obstetricians who went on strike on New Year's Eve. One of the doctors said his medical-malpractice insurance premiums had gone up so much that it now took him 700 consultations just to cover the cost of his insurance bill. In 1995, he could pay his premium with just 100 consultations. The seven-fold increase caused this doctor to let...

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