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Texas-style "tort reform" is dead again

By The Blog Team

Bill goes back to committee; issue goes to Legislative Reference Bureau for study.

And "progressive" politician and attorney Della Au Bellati laments the fate of insurance companies on the floor of the House of the Representatives:

"This motion to recommit is a motion to stifle debate and consideration," said state Rep. Della Au Belatti, D-25th (Tantalus, Makiki, McCully), who wants higher reimbursement payments for doctors. She cautioned lawmakers not to squander the opportunity to improve healthcare access.

"The call for change will echo far beyond these chambers and the public may dare well respond to that call," she said. "I do not want it on my conscience, on my record, that I shirked my duty."

Full post as published by Supreme Court of Hawaii Blog (Unofficial) on March 16, 2008 (boomark / email).