Medical Liability Reform

Listed below are some talking points for becoming an effective advocate for medical liability reform:

• Our nation’s health care system is facing a medical liability crisis due to rising medical liability insurance premiums.



• Because of these skyrocketing insurance premiums physicians in many states are being forced to limit services, retire early, or move to another state with lower insurance costs.



• Frivolous lawsuits are driving up insurance premiums resulting in all Americans paying higher health care costs.



• 45% of America’s hospitals report that the medical liability crisis has resulted in the loss of physicians and emergency departments are losing staff and scaling back on critical services in our nation’s trauma units.



• 1 in 7 Ob-gyns in America no longer deliver babies due to rising liability insurance costs.



• Our liability system needs reasonable limits on non-economic damages up to $250,000 and a “fair share” rule that allocates damage awards fairly and in proportion.



• As my congressional representative, you can stop this crisis today by passing medical liability reform legislation and save our health care system.