Each year, over 100,000 people are killed by preventable medical errors, due to negligence or wrongdoing. Many more are seriously or permanently injured, disfigured or disabled.The leadership in the House of Representatives is promoting legislation, written by the insurance industry and HMOs, which would restrict the ability of Americans injured by medical malpractice to hold accountable those who caused them harm.
The legislation would create a "one size fits all" system for people injured in a medical setting or nursing home. The limits would apply no matter how severe the harm - even if the wrong limb was amputated, an unnecessary mastectomy was performed, or even in cases involving the death of a child. Congress has their priorities mixed up. Shouldn't we be talking about protecting the health and safety of patients, rather than protecting Congress' corporate friends in the health care, insurance and HMO industries.Urge Congress to oppose any legislation seeking to restrict the rights of people through so-called medical malpractice "reform."
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction
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