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9/12/2008
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Back in 2004, I had Kaiser health insurance through my employer. I was diagnosed late that year with a fibroid uterine tumor and the doctors said I needed a hysterectomy. After the surgery that December, at Kaiser in Santa Rosa, my cervical bleeding never stopped, and I have it to this day. I was fatigued, had dizzy spells, first rarely and...
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Archived Article
8/22/2008
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
[Editor’s note: When 15-year-old Dawn Marie Esposito of Lincoln Park, N.J., was hospitalized with a head injury after a car accident, doctors assured her parents that it wasn’t potentially fatal. But days later, she suddenly and “inexplicably” died. It was only later, after seeking legal help, that they found out the likely...
Blog Post
8/18/2008
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Doctors have been claiming for more thanthirty years that lawsuits don't help keep patients safe from harm. A California law passed in 1975 drastically restricted the legal rights of medical negligence victims, and included a cap on pain and suffering damages of $250,000. Doctors said the law was necessary to protect them from unmerited lawsuits,...
Blog Post
5/9/2008
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
When the federal government passes a law but has no cops to enforce it, the crooks hold a "get out of jail free" card. That's the unfortunate effect of a sweeping and successful effort by drug and insurance companies to have federal law "preempt" state enforcement. A spate of stories today (LA Times, Wall Street Journal, New...
Blog Post
4/2/2008
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Can Dennis Quaid's fight to make sense of his twin babies' harrowing ordeal at Cedars Sinai change the face of medicine? I'm betting on Quaid and his family's new foundation.
Quaid's appearance on the Today Show aired a straight-forward issue that has become unnecessarily overly-complicated on Capitol Hill, in state houses and in the media. The...
Blog Post
3/17/2008
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
The state board charged with protecting Californians from bad doctors is doing too little, too late. Complaints about physician mistakes and misconduct are taking almost three years (934 days) to investigate and prosecute, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times today, leaving dangerous doctors to practice while patients are unaware there...
News Story
1/25/2008
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
SACRAMENTO, CA -- To have earned a title like "The Man Who Cracked Enron," Joe Dunn must be persistent.
So it's no surprise that the former Orange County senator is
still trying to save the state's diversion program, which allows
doctors to see patients while secretly being treated for drug or
alcohol abuse.
I first wrote about diversion...
News Story
12/29/2007
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Lawyers, citing an award limit, often won't take medical injury suits.
Dave Stewart's 72-year-old mother went to Stanford University Medical Center
for double knee-replacement surgery in April. Four days later, she was
dead.
To Stewart, an anesthesiologist, it seemed a
classic case of medical malpractice. After the operation, his mother
developed...
News Story
10/22/2007
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
One of the nation's largest health insurers, WellPoint, has teamed with Zagat Survey to let patients rate their doctors, just as diners rate restaurants in Zagat's burgundy-colored guides.
Instead of Zagat's four categories for restaurants -- food, décor, service and cost -- the ratings guide will consider trust, communication, availability...
News Release
15 Years of Auto Insurance Regulation Has Reduced CA Premiums, While Rates Increased 47% Nationwide;
5/15/2007
Posted by Consumer Watchdog
Prop 103-style Regulation of Health Insurance Will Be Debated in Legislature on Wednesday
Santa Monica, CA -- As the California legislature continues the debate on whether to regulate the health insurance industry on Wednesday, a new study of California's landmark insurance reform initiative, Proposition 103, shows that the nation's most effective...
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