Dan Walters: California cap in malpractice cases an issue - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee: "One of the many contentious issues in the national health care debate is something that began 34 years ago in California when Jerry Brown, in the first year of his first governorship, signed legislation imposing a $250,000 limit on pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice cases.
The version of a national health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through the House contains a provision that would push – but not quite compel – California and other states with malpractice damage caps to repeal them.
A little history: During the mid-1970s, insurance premiums for malpractice insurance skyrocketed in response to some big damage judgments. They rose so high that many doctors threatened to leave the state, or abandon specialized practices, particularly obstetrics. At one point, doctors' wives staged a sleep-in protest in Brown's outer office, albeit with the fashionably dressed demonstrators sleeping in down sleeping bags and noshing on catered meals."
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