{"id":1059,"date":"2004-01-29T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T20:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/is-safety-unprofitable\/"},"modified":"2004-01-29T13:02:43","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T20:02:43","slug":"is-safety-unprofitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/is-safety-unprofitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Is safety unprofitable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"FactCheck.org President Uses Dubious Statistics on Costs of Malpractice Lawsuits\" href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/article.aspx?docid=133\">FactCheck.org President Uses Dubious Statistics on Costs of Malpractice Lawsuits<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The President holds out the prospect of major cost savings if Congress will pass a law limiting what injured patients can collect in lawsuits. He wants a cap of $250,000 on any damages for &#8221;pain and suffering&#8221; and other non-economic damages. His administration projects savings to the entire economy of between $60 billion and $108 billion per year in health-care costs, including $28 billion or more to federal taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>But both the General Accounting Office and the Congressional Budget Office criticize the 1996 study the Bush administration uses as their main support. <b>These nonpartisan agencies suggest savings &#8212; if any &#8212; would be relatively small.<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republicans often fume about trial lawyers. The President snarled twice in the State of the Union Address about &#8216;frivolous&#8217; lawsuits. How about a little indignation over unsafe products and malpractice? mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FactCheck.org President Uses Dubious Statistics on Costs of Malpractice Lawsuits The President holds out the prospect of major cost savings if Congress will pass a law limiting what injured patients can collect in lawsuits. He wants a cap of $250,000 on any damages for &#8221;pain and suffering&#8221; and other non-economic damages. His administration projects savings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/is-safety-unprofitable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is safety unprofitable?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}