Does anyone remember Proposition 12? This was the constitutional amendment that was finally going to make medical care affordable for the 23.2 percent of Texans who don't have health coverage and cheaper for all the rest of us. This miracle was going to happen because doctors would now be able to afford insurance malpractice premiums and so would be able to expand the care they offered. The upper limit of damages for medical-malpractice was pegged at $250,000, much less if the person hurt was a child, or a retired person, or a stay-at-home mom, or some other non-economically-productive person. No relief for inflation was built in.
Posted by Editor at January 24, 2004 03:38 PM