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Bill: Monetary Damage Repayment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rutanian Democratic Forum
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2644
Description[?]:
| RDF proposes to establish a cap on monetary damage awarded to patients in lawsuits for malpractice. Arguments for: ensuring a stability and liquidity of medical system, and also, creating a positive environment for doctors and for medicine. Malpractice can be avoided by better education, better medical schools, promoting ethical and scientific standards in medicine. Good practice cannot be achieved through lawsuits, because it creates an atmosphere of fear and of avoidance of lawsuits. Then, doctors treat patients with standard, well. established, but maybe bad techniques because of their fear of lawsuits, and not with techniques which can ensure total recovery (but maybe involve more risk). The hospitals are not law institutions, we need more doctors, more educated doctors, not more lawyers in hospital institutions! Of course, repayment of damage should be enough and adequate, but malpractice can be best avoided by better education, not by high monetary damages. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tort reform on non-civil lawsuits.
Old value:: There is no cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Current: There is a cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Proposed: There is a cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:50:52, September 27, 2008 CET | From | Kazari Militarist Movement | To | Debating the Monetary Damage Repayment Act |
| Message | "We will agree with this piece of legislation. This nation cannot afford to allow such heavy lawsuits to be passed on to the medical practicioners of our nation." -Dr. Kirby Fung |
| Date | 16:08:26, September 27, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Monetary Damage Repayment Act |
| Message | "Mr Speaker, RDF is pleased to have CLR support on our side. RDF is pleased that they recognized our arguments as right arguments." Bernard Cayes, MNC RDF spokesman for health and social issues |
| Date | 04:45:23, September 28, 2008 CET | From | Federal Rutanian Libertarian Union | To | Debating the Monetary Damage Repayment Act |
| Message | "The PCP does not offer its support to this bill - for the purposes of allowing for the civil system decide on its own injunctions without interference from governmental agencies." |
| Date | 13:14:42, September 28, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Monetary Damage Repayment Act |
| Message | "Main arguments are already given in the introductory speech, but I will repeat them: - liquidity and stability of medical system and system of finances in medical system - focusing on medicine, not on lawsuits Judiciary is independent from the other two parts of government, but it's not totally independent. This should not be a decision of the government, it's a decision of people's representatives in National Congress. And why? To preserve stability of the system, and to allow doctors to focus on patients, because of their (patients') good, not because of fear of lawsuits. Doctors make hundred of procedures, and complications are sometimes inevitable. Sometimes there are medical reasons for that, and sometimes it's really malpractice. A proper damage must be payed to the victims' families, but, unfortunately to say, some things cannot be undone. A damage can be quite high, but we want to prevent the focus of hospitals on lawsuits and very large damages. We believe in our judiciary system, but think it's better to regulate it by law, which obliges all hospitals and all courts in Commonwealth. Focus on medicine, not on law - hospitals are primarily medical institutions. Let them do they work. If someone fails because of malpractice, he should be punished, but hospitals are not insurance companies, they must preserve their focus on medicine: because they operate for good of the patients." Bernard Cayes, MNC RDF spokesman for health and social issues |
| Date | 13:19:38, September 28, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Monetary Damage Repayment Act |
| Message | RDF therefore hopes that PCP will support this proposal. (when it comes to vote, after the elections) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 330 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 71 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 198 |
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