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| Editor:
Why don't doctors like Scott Paris admit that their main concern
in the malpractice insurance debate is their pocketbook, and not
their patients' rights? The medical society has unabashedly allied itself with the tobacco industry, industrial polluters, drug companies and other corporate peddlers of disease and injury, in supporting a bill that would allow limiting damages in all types of cases, not just malpractice. They are working against such groups as Mothers Against Drunk Driving and organized labor. The medical society never puts a priority on insurance reform or ending the single greatest cause of insurance rate increases, malpractice. They also have a code of silence that protects only bad doctors. Neither the medical society nor Dr. Paris has criticized their chief ally in the Legislature, Sen. Piccola of Dauphin County, for sitting on the boards of two insurance companies while pushing the pro-insurance and anti-consumer agenda. Apparently over $250 million in tax increases to pay the victims of medical errors were not enough for them. They now want our constitutional rights. ANGELA RUSSONIELLO Clarks Summit |