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News Release
1/27/2011
Posted by Carmen Balber
Washington, DC– House Republicans are misrepresenting California’s experience with medical liability limits to argue for legislation, HR 5, that would take away the rights of patients injured by medical negligence. Consumer Watchdog sent a letter to the bill’s author, House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith, today and called on...
Blog Post
12/2/2010
Posted by Carmen Balber
Consumer Watchdog joined 17 consumer and patient safety organizations today to condemn a proposal by the President’s debt commission to impose drastic limits on the rights of injured patients as a deficit-cutting measure.
The groups wrote:
The recommendation to impose cruel liability restrictions on patients injured by the medical...
Focus Area
10/27/2010
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
98,000 people die each year because of medical mistakes. Consumer Watchdog fights for the right of those patients--and the thousands of others injured by medical errors--to take negligent doctors and hospitals to court.
Doctors, hospitals and their insurance companies spend millions of dollars lobbying Congress and state legislatures to stop...
Blog Post
3/1/2010
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
I just got off the phone with Consumer Watchdog Boardmember Kathy Olsen, who is in Washington, D.C. today along with her family, and medical malpractice victims and/or their families from four other states, for meetings at the White House with Administration staff regarding limiting the legal rights of innocent victims of medical negligence.
The...
Blog Post
2/24/2010
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
When Wellpoint CEO Angela Braly doesn't like a question, she's a regular Houdini of evasion and blame-shifting. Her testimony in front of Congress today managed to turn denial of health care into "efficiency" and put the blame for 39% yearly premium increases onto Blue Cross policyholders who dared to get sick.
Braly described the...
Blog Post
2/23/2010
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
As pressure builds toward Thursday's "bipartisan" presidential summit on health care reform, some Capitol Hill staffers have reported receiving calls from the White House claiming the President is ready to give up the legal rights of medical malpractice victims for GOP support.
What's wrong with the trade-off? LA's local NPR talk radio...
News Story
11/28/2009
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Like some 47 million other Americans, Nancy Sowa (pictured) doesn't have health insurance. So when her doctors last year told her she needed a total hip replacement, the office manager for a non-profit did what a growing number of U.S. citizens are doing: She headed abroad. At Wockhardt Hospital in Bangalore, India, the 56-year-old was put up in a...
News Release
10/29/2009
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Consumer Watchdog sent the following letter to Congressional leaders today in response to a letter sent by the Governor on October 27, 2009 in which he incorrectly cited California's draconian limits on the legal rights of injured patients as a successful cost containment tool. The Governor's letter is available here.
October 29, 2009
The...
Blog Post
10/27/2009
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
My blackberry picture is a little too blurry to do them justice, but this is Scott, Steve and Kathy Olsen at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol building last week (you can see the Supreme Court building in the background) to urge members of Congress to keep limits on patients’ legal rights out of the health care bill...
My...
News Release
10/1/2009
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Seven national consumer and health organizations announced today they have placed ads in opinion-leading Washington D.C. publications declaring strong opposition to any provisions in the health care bill that would limit the legal rights of patients injured by medical malpractice, including measures that would force them into...
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