The Myth of Frivolous Medical Lawsuits, Part 1: Corporate America's Bait & Switch
December 29, 2010 @ 11:57 AM — by Jacob Diesselhorst
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.