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Bill: NPH Likes Both His Arms
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free White Castle and The People Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: September 2166
Description[?]:
| Whereas; Doctors that commit torts should be judged on both a moral and financial basis; and Whereas; Those who inflict damage intentionally or with gross negligence ought to be punished for their actions; therefore it is Resolved; There is no cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tort reform on non-civil lawsuits.
Old value:: Lawsuits may only provide money for medical and legal expenses.
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 | 20:56:59, January 03, 2006 CET | From | Free White Castle and The People Party | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | Let's say that a doctor cut's off your left arm instead or removing your appendix because he drank his lunch. Under current law you could recover your medical expenses and that is it. That is ridiculous. Lawsuits shouldn't settle everything, but someone guilty of gross negligence should have to compensate someone for their emotional and physical loss, not simply medical and legal expenses. Such limitations fail to discourage good doctoring because the government has interfered by making doctors a protected class. |
| Date | 22:08:23, January 03, 2006 CET | From | Seosavists Republican party | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | ok. |
| Date | 04:22:33, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Redneck Party | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | No |
| Date | 05:28:53, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | ok. |
| Date | 05:29:47, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | But the cap should not be set too high. |
| Date | 09:11:31, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | No. The costs should be related to real-life expenses: not all this "emotional loss" crap! This just leads to a litigious society we don't want. |
| Date | 09:31:17, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | While I agree with the DUP, if the cap was set in the region of 2,500-5,000 pounds (including medical and legal costs), it would help the victims get back on their feet, without bankrupting most doctors (who are likely to be in the 5,000-30,000 economic brackets), without creating the litigious society we all fear. |
| Date | 09:33:27, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | Such a cap would need to be stated in the bill itself before it got our support. |
| Date | 09:56:31, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | In anycase, such a cap should be enough to help the victim, without being enough to create a need for lawyers. |
| Date | 17:59:01, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Free White Castle and The People Party | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | OK, I will bring up a new bill after this failed. Although doctors can have insurance to minimize the risk of bankruptcy, but I think the cap should be higher, I mean what if the doctor accidentally removed your testes, would you take 5000 pounds for that? |
| Date | 18:08:46, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | You have to remember that in Luthori, the highest income is just over 30,000 pounds. Which means either the Luthori pound is worth alot, or we are a poor nation. |
| Date | 18:11:35, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Free White Castle and The People Party | To | Debating the NPH Likes Both His Arms |
| Message | considering our uneployment levels, i would say we are poor. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 215 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 535 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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