But Will It Hold?
The voting is now done, and as of yesterday late, medical liability reform has passed both houses of the General Assembly. Senators Brady and Watson, as well as Reps Mitchell and Flider ALL voted for this bill. Baloneyvitch is expected to sign it, as he had promised.
But the larger question still remains. Will it hold? On three previous attempts the state of Illinois has had tort reform bills go through, but each had been struck down by our Supreme Court as being unconstitutional. According to sources at ISMS, the "problems" with previous bills have been removed, and the probability that this law will be called unconstitutional are slim. However, critics of the law think that there will be another unconstitutional judgement, and that all this work has really been just a charade to make Illinois Democrats look good to their constituents.
People close to me who are high up in the ISMS have re-assured me that this law has a very good chance of making it through the courts if challenged. However, republican sources claim that the liberals will still act to bring this law down by legislating from the bench as they have done in the past, so we will have to wait and see.
In other words, as far as this story goes, we are still in the "rising action" phase, and will not reach the climax of this story until a Supreme Court ruling is given out, one way or the other.
Until then, we can at least celebrate we have tort reform....for now.
But the larger question still remains. Will it hold? On three previous attempts the state of Illinois has had tort reform bills go through, but each had been struck down by our Supreme Court as being unconstitutional. According to sources at ISMS, the "problems" with previous bills have been removed, and the probability that this law will be called unconstitutional are slim. However, critics of the law think that there will be another unconstitutional judgement, and that all this work has really been just a charade to make Illinois Democrats look good to their constituents.
People close to me who are high up in the ISMS have re-assured me that this law has a very good chance of making it through the courts if challenged. However, republican sources claim that the liberals will still act to bring this law down by legislating from the bench as they have done in the past, so we will have to wait and see.
In other words, as far as this story goes, we are still in the "rising action" phase, and will not reach the climax of this story until a Supreme Court ruling is given out, one way or the other.
Until then, we can at least celebrate we have tort reform....for now.
posted by Decatur Pride at 5/31/2005 05:35:00 PM
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P.S. I forgot to add...a friend just said she had surgery done by a neurosurgeon in Peoria. This guy has been in practice for around ten years, has only had one suit brought against him (still pending, and bogus from what he says,) but yet his malpractice is going from 96,000 a year to 393,000 a year if he wants to stay with the same company!
Sounds like what happened to Drs. Dold, Long and Kraus not too long ago, eh? I hope his hospitals can do something to keep him in Peoria so he doesn't have to move. Maybe, if the law holds, his rates will get reasonable again, or maybe another company will be able to pick him up at some point down the road. This guy is an *EXCELLENT* surgeon, and Illinois cannot afford to lose him.
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