Litigation, Lawsuits, & Patient Care Disruption | Donald Saelinger Lawsuit

Is it the ultimate solution for increasing quality and reducing the cost of healthcare for Americans?

Will it result in litigation, lawsuits, and patient care disruption?

Healthcare reform (Affordable Care Act) encourages providers to create larger delivery organizations that can coordinate care in pursuit of greater quality and efficiency at less cost. In most cities across America, hospitals are merging together to form large systems. Expanded hospital networks are purchasing physician practices at an alarming rate.

Donald Saelinger Lawsuit | Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Insurance

Recently, American Medical News reported that medical malpractice lawsuit insurance premiums have begun to soften but this is thought to be a temporary decline.  Overall, across the United States, medical malpractice lawsuit insurance premiums declined on average of about 3% over the past two years.  Additionally, medical malpractice insurance is more readily available than it was in the late 90s and in the early 2000s, when such coverage was difficult to obtain and was very expensive.

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Reform

Healthcare reform and universal healthcare coverage for all Americans:
Is it  “slip, slidin’ away? Where is the Medical Malpractice lawsuit reform? Who will pay for it?

The Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act (ACA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in March of 2010. All Americans, physicians and patients alike, remember the political turmoil and popular upheaval over its passage. Media attention to its implementation and ongoing legal challenges has taken a backseat to other important issues such as Osama bin Laden, deficit spending, uprising in the Middle East, the 2012 presidential election, earthquake in Japan, and tornadoes in Midwest. Paul Simon’s refrain, “slip slidin away, the nearer your destination, the more your slip slidin away”, seems an appropriate description for for universal health care coverage in the United States today. Most would  agree that the health of America is dependent on the health of its individual citizens, so it seems that physicians and citizens should stand up and and help prevent universal access to quality healthcare for all Americans from slip slidin away. Most physicians believe that access to affordable high-quality health care for all Americans is a moral and medical imparative to prevent needless suffering and death.