Poll Shows That Malpractice Reform Is Wanted by Americans

11/24/09

The Associated Press recently conducted a poll and here was their findings:

• 54% want it more difficult to sue hospitals and doctors over malpractice, 32% opposed.
• 58% of Independents and 61% of Republicans want lawsuit limits

Because of frivolous lawsuits, many doctors and hospitals have to go through exorbitant and unnecessary lengths to ensure that they cover all their bases. They do this to avoid being sued but all this really does is drive up the prices of health care for everybody.

Some may say that more tests is better for our healths but sometimes it is better to do one thing and try it out and see how it works before progressing onto another treatment.

Health care has been defined as "defensive care" medicine by many frivolous lawsuit opponents.

The sad thing is there are many cases where individuals have been harmed and injured by medical professionals but their cases get drowned in a sea of some very bad lawsuits. Perhaps there should be some type of a screening process before a case lands in front of a judge. Perhaps that will ensure some validity to these cases before they are even heard.

Second, if there were some lawsuit limits, attorneys would not be so apt to see everybody for any reason. Remember those obese lawsuits of McDonalds?

The AP poll was conducted by Stanford University with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.