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GEN: An American Malignancy MetastasizesFrom: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)Mon Dec 11 07:07:31 2000
from today's Reuters Health - Australian doctors fight soaring indemnity costs Last Updated: 2000-12-08 17:53:06 EST (Reuters Health) By Nic Rowan CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters Health) - Australia's medical associations and representative bodies have called for urgent reform to stop spiralling medical insurance costs. At a crisis meeting in Melbourne, presidents and delegates from specialties such as surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology and emergency medicine put forward a series of policy initiatives. Australian Medical Association (AMA) Federal President Dr. Kerryn Phelps said in a media release that "growing numbers of doctors are quitting or scaling back their private practise as a result of soaring medical indemnity premiums." She added that "the system is out of control. Medical insurance costs have been soaring by 15% to 25% a year because courts are continuing to award larger and larger payouts." In an interview with Reuters Health, AMA Vice President Dr. Terry Mudge said that "we don't want to see a Florida-type situation here, where a no-fault compensation system was introduced only after the last obstetrician left in 1986." He added that while rural obstetricians are first, neurosurgeons are next in line for indemnity problems. The group has called for alternative models to the current adversarial system, and says that these should be led by the Federal government. They also want structured settlements, where payments for personal injuries are made periodically for life. -Westport Newsroom 203 319 2700 art
-- art fougner, md
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