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Show MALPRACTICE INSURANCE While the problem of malpractice mal-practice insurance continues to escalate, the nation's independent in-dependent business people are opposed to afederal program pro-gram to solve the crisis. This is the interpretation that can be placed on the just completed nationwide poll by the National Federation Federa-tion of Independent Business which found 61 per cent opposed op-posed to a federal program, with 31 percent in favor, and 7 per cent undecided. In Utah the returns showed 72 per cent opposed, 24 per cent in favor, and 4 per cent undecided. The poll was actually taken on a bill before the Congress by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin which wouldes-tablish wouldes-tablish a medical malprac tice reinsurance program for claims over $25,000 financed fi-nanced through voluntary contributions from participating parti-cipating insurance companies. compan-ies. The protection would be limited to states with uniform uni-form insurance rated regardless re-gardless of speciality. While independent business busi-ness people realize that the problem exists, there appears ap-pears a strong feeling that this is a matter for individual indivi-dual states to solve rather than the federal government. Also contributing to the heavy adverse vote is the sporadic nature of malpractice malprac-tice suits. The bulk of the specialists who engage in high hazard operations are located in the metropolitan areas and hence it is in these areas that the bulk of the malpractice suits originate. |
