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: Illinois Medical Malpractice BlogLimiting Patient Rights Will Not Lower Healthcare Costs
By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti
According to American Association for Justice President Les Weisbrod, limiting patient rights would not lower healthcare costs. The debate over medical malpractice caps comes after a highly publicized speech by President Obama to the American Medical Association where he assured medical malpractice attorneys that he is not supporting caps on such suits but does want to scale back ?defensive medicine.?
Read more about the AAJ?s stance on medical malpractice reform here.
Full post as published by Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).
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