March 28, 2024

Well, now.  If you fix it, they will come: The Monitor – McAllen, Texas.  Seems Texas has gained over 3,000 doctors since tort reform passed.

Coincidence, you say?  Not from my viewpoint.

via KevinMD

7 thoughts on “If you Fix It, They will Come

  1. No way is it a coincidence. Living on the Iowa/Illinois border, our Illinois campus loses docs to the Iowa campus regularly due to malpractice in Illinois.

    Rumor has it that most EM jobs in Texas are independant contractor type. True?

  2. Prop 12 was an important first step, hopefully towards true reform. Count on the plaintiffs’ attorneys spinning all news in a bad light, however.

    Excellent blog, btw, from a DFW neurorad.

  3. I’ll post the same comment I posted over
    at Kevin’s blog. Using the same source of
    information as this reporter, the Texas government
    website. During the preceeding 2 years without
    tort reform and at the height of the medical
    malpractice crisis in Texas saw:
    – more doctors added to the Texas roles as a %
    – more doctors added in absolute numbers
    – more doctors added in the specific counties
    mentioned (the supposed lawsuit zone)
    You have to conclude that it is not a coincidence
    that this number was added, but a continuation of
    a trend that has nothing to do with tort reform.

  4. And specifically, the story you cite reports 3000 docs added from May 2003-May 2005, and attributes this to tort reform. The same data shows that from May 2001-May 2003, Texas added 3085 docs.

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