The Governor is going to have to address this and do it in a more productive way than the Speaker has tried to do in the past. There are two ways this can work. One is a bill that protects insurance companies and bad doctors. The other is one that puts in reasonable caps in circumstances and stops any venue shopping. Missouri is fighting over the first option, Tom Cross has chosen the second. The Democrats need to find a compromise with Cross and get something passed. The Capitol Fax has a new report on the loss of doctors in Metro East:
DOC LOSS MAY BE INCREASING The president of a Belleville hospital claimed this week that Metro-East hospitals could lose as many as 161 physicians by the end of the year. If true, and the president did not disclose the names of the departed and departing physicians, that would be double what had been predicted. The Metro-East has very high medical malpractice insurance rates, which the docs claim are driving them out of the region and the state.
Irrelevant to the article I’m commenting under:
Bill Lipinski is apparently resigning and attempting to appoint his son, a Tennessee professor, in his place. This is going to undercut any Democratic arguments about Keyes the carpetbagger, if Lipinski is allowed to get away with it.