Oklahoma Injury Lawyer Blog

Recently, President Obama approved $25 million dollars in an grants to research methods to reduce costs associated with medical malpractice lawsuits.  As discussed in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, authored by Janet Adamy, these grants were added as a last-second compromise to this year's sweeping health insurance reform legislation in an effort to appease spurious calls by Corporate America for "tort reform." 

Of course, complaints by doctors, hospitals and insurance companies, that medical malpractice claims are out of control and a leading cause of rising health care costs, are overblown, unsupported and are nothing more than yet another corporate hustle of the American public.

Medical error is still one of the leading causes of death in the United States.  Despite advances in medicine and having the best health care system in the world, far too many innocent people die every year due to medical malpractice, medical neglect and error in this country.  Steps must be made not only to lower the costs of health care in this country but also to improve safety in health care delivery and reduce medical error and deaths and injuries which result from medical malpractice and medical mistakes.