Bill seeks ideas on medical malpractice
States would be able to use federal money to experiment with new ways to avoid medical tort suits under a bill unveiled in the U.S. Senate May 24th. The Bill would allow the Department of Health and Human Services to award up to 10 demonstration grants to states for the development, implementation and evaluation of alternatives to the litigation based system. The measure seeks to use the promise of grants from Washington to urge states to come up with novel dispute resolution programs designed to keep some malpractice suits out of court. The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus and Wyoming Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, could be promising to supporters of "health courts," which advocates say could resolve medical error lawsuits more quickly and fairly than traditional courts do.
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