Good Grief
Good Grief.
A cap of three quarters of a million dollars?
$750,000.00?
That's a steep price to pay for the Supreme Court decision. The old cap was a bit more than $440k.Two Republican lawmakers today will roll out a bill that sets a $750,000 medical malpractice damage cap on pain and suffering awards to victims, an aide said Monday.
The move marks the second attempt by Republicans to put new caps into place. Gov. Jim Doyle recently vetoed a lower set of proposed limits.
Rep. Curt Gielow, R-Mequon, and Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R- Juneau, put together the bill to stop the rising health-care costs they think will result from a state Supreme Court decision last year that struck down the state's old caps as unconstitutional, Fitzgerald spokesman Mike Prentiss said.
If this passes and Doyle signs it, it's a lose-lose for Republicans. They lay down and suggest a huge new cap level and Doyle takes another major issue off the table for November.
I would have thought the GOP would have offered a cap of $500k, adjusted for inflation.
That said, there is still a chance Doyle won't agree to any cap. The trial bar's grip is pretty strong, after all.
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I'll put my money on Craps vetoing even this, with some covering action on the Craps-packed Supreme Court throwing this out.
Steve Egg is a rotten egg. The "packed" Supreme Court includes just one Justice appointed by Governor Doyle -- Louis Butler. Want to try again, idiot Steve?
Anon, nice name calling from someone too chicken to post any trackable info. You really need to grow up.
As for my assertion that Doyle packed the state Supreme Court, that one appointment changed the nature of that court from conservative to liberal. Taking the subject-du-jour, the malpractice caps, by what vote did they declare the previous cap unconstitutional? 4-3. What side was Butler on? The majority.
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