If I was an editor of a newspaper, I would ban all editorials that just complain of a problem without offer anything resembling a solution. This editorial in the Denver Post is classic. Just babbling on about the problem, pretending to focus on patients, without offering anything resembling a solution. We need to compensate victims but a fault based system is a bad idea? The cost of compensating everyone who suffers a medical injury would be insane. Justice requires effort. Sorry. Trite platitudes about how the battles over caps are a waste of energy add nothing to the conversation. You have a plan you can defend? Articulate it. Otherwise, save the solution-free speeches.
The Maryland Malpractice Lawyer Blog has a number of links to a few Baltimore Sun editorials that rail against malpractice caps (and, directly and indirectly, Maryland malpractice lawyers). I disagree strongly with these editorials (at least the ones that do not want to raise the malpractice caps in Maryland) but at least they are offering real opinions. This Denver Post editorial is like writing an editorial saying auto accidents are bad. We get this. But offer a solution that you can defend.
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