Health Care & Hospital Law
Aug. 11, 2010
Improving Medical Care in California: Why Doctors Don't Care
Is the California Medical Association a guardian of health care for patients or protector of its member doctors' pocket books?
Bruce G. Fagel
Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & AssociatesPhone: (310) 516-9035
Email: brucefagel@fagellaw.com
Whittier College School of Law
Bruce G. Fagel is licensed to practice medicine and is founder of the Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & Associates. He served as a consultant on medical malpractice law to the California Judicial Counsel Committee, which wrote the new CACI jury instructions. He can be reached at brucefagel@fagellaw.com
The California Medical Association claims to represent 35,000 doctors in California and is one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Sacramento. It was the moving force behind the passage of MICRA (Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act) in 1975, which, among other changes, limited recovery for non-economic damages for the victims of medical malpractice to $250,000. The California Medical Association has been the major opponent to any discussion about increasing the cap, or at least in...
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