Wednesday, October 05, 2005

How to lower the number of lawsuits

There is apparently a tradeoff between the amount of government regulation of hospitals and the number of lawsuits for patient deaths. If the government does not set a nurse-to-patient ratio, the hospitals lower the number of nurses to save money. Then health requirements are not performed properly since the trained people just aren't there to do it, and patients die. That increases the number of lawsuits against hospitals.

Also, as the number of workers in unions decrease, the number of people who go through arbitration procedures for personnel problems are reduced. That leaves the Courts as the only source of conflict resolution.

These are examples from a pamphlet from Prickly Paradigm Press, Thomas Geoghegan's The Law in Shambles which Kevin Drum reviews and recommends.

Looks interesting, but my own reading is scheduled for several months ahead.

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