Doctor Jacquelline Perlman has had it. After a 12-year career as an OB-GYN doctor she his quitting her practice. One of the major reasons is the exorbitant costs of malpractice insurance.
“I’ve decided to retire from obstetrics,” said Perlman, 42. “It breaks my heart. Malpractice costs are a big part of it. It’s a very sad story.”
Last spring her insurer dropped her and several of her fellow doctors because of the high risk of covering OB-GYNs. Dr. Perlman’s new insurer was to charge $160,000 a year for coverage and that proved too much for Perlman to take.
Perlman noted that over the last five years, as her insurance costs multiplied, her actual income dropped by 20 percent.
So, another good doctor — one that has never had a malpractice case stick to her — leaves the profession. Now, before some of you out there assume the insurance companies is the villain here, let us pinpoint the real villain: trial lawyers.
It is the nuisance lawsuits, those filed merely to harass doctors in order to get a quick settlement, and lawyers that game the system with nonsense lawsuits as well as clients looking for a lottery-like payout that will make them instant millionaires that cause this problem.
One of the most important aspects of what should be a true reform to our system of medicine would be a policy that would curtail these out-of-control, greedy lawyers. Naturally, tort reform and trial lawyers are coming up as a protected class in Obamacare. And why is that? Because trial lawyers gave Obama a ton of cash for his campaign, that’s why.
This proves that Obamacare is not about “reform,” nor about improving our medical system. It is first and foremost about political payoffs. Obama is shameless in his political payoffs and this one is particularly stark.
In the meantime, as Obamacare takes its baby steps toward final passage, more great docs like Mrs. Perlman will quit the business.
Obama keeps pretending that we will be “allowed” to “keep our doctors if we like them.” But as each day passes we are finding more and more reasons why many of us will lose our favorite doctors whether we like them or not.
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Looks the like the predictable “opposition” to the throw-away government option plan was put out today by Snowe and the usual moderate D types…..again, I think that was all show to scare the right and keep the left fired up…..Reid was just throwing it out there to appease the based, keep up maximum leverage on the R and special interests, and dropping it will allow Obama to swoop in and appear “Moderate”…..as I have said all along - this was nothing but a head fake to keep our eyes of the really damaging elements!
While its good that this “government option” scam is going to be killed off, its BY FAR not the most onerous provision in the Obamacare takeover….
The Unconstitutional Individual Mandate will erode our freedom and individual liberty and is just as surely a government HC takeover as the government option scam……we need to keep the pressure up and let our lawmakers both R and D know we still oppose this as well as the anti-competative “preexisting conditions” and “communtinty rating” mandates!
We need to let the know that we still see the Federal government takeover core is still in any so called reform bills – Individual Mandates, subsidies/taxes, and regulation….
Where does the HC power grab really stand?
I see it this way - we are in MORE danger then ever now. The left will push thru all the rest minus a government medical welfare entitlement plan and sold as “moderate compromise” because so many will be relieved to just see the government option go and not realzing that all the rest of Obamacare will destroy private HC and Health Insurnace…..as promised in 5-10 years…and so will go our econonmy, our politics will forever be statist dominated, and our individual liberties will be NO more!
We need to send the statists a message in upcoming elections but need to continue to call, fax, and email Congress as much as ever on HC!