Rob Hoskins
02-20-2009, 04:11 PM
Here is a link to a recent article I saw in the Google news feed urging change.
Thanks to their wildly successful campaign for total lawsuit immunity, health insurers and medical device manufacturers have profited at the public's expense. The new Congress, however, already has a blueprint which will allow it to roll back some of the Supreme Court's worst decisions protecting the health care industry. With progressives now dominating both houses of Congress, the time is ripe to revive the Patients' Bill of Rights (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:S.1890:), which restores the ability of people like Phyllis Cannon and James Lind to hold rogue health plans accountable in state court. Congress can also ensure the safety of medical devices like the Sprint Fidelis leads by enacting the Medical Device Safety Act (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-6381), which revives the states' authority to protect their citizens against dangerous medical devices. Indeed, as Congress prepares to consider the President's ambitious health care plan, both bills deserve to be part of their agenda.
Here is the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-millhiser/justice-scalia-took-away_b_168551.html
Thanks to their wildly successful campaign for total lawsuit immunity, health insurers and medical device manufacturers have profited at the public's expense. The new Congress, however, already has a blueprint which will allow it to roll back some of the Supreme Court's worst decisions protecting the health care industry. With progressives now dominating both houses of Congress, the time is ripe to revive the Patients' Bill of Rights (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:S.1890:), which restores the ability of people like Phyllis Cannon and James Lind to hold rogue health plans accountable in state court. Congress can also ensure the safety of medical devices like the Sprint Fidelis leads by enacting the Medical Device Safety Act (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-6381), which revives the states' authority to protect their citizens against dangerous medical devices. Indeed, as Congress prepares to consider the President's ambitious health care plan, both bills deserve to be part of their agenda.
Here is the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-millhiser/justice-scalia-took-away_b_168551.html