Californians Allied for Patient Protection On-Line News Teleconference Feb. 28, 2005.New Study Says Raising Lid lid see eyelid. on "Pain and Suffering" Awards Would Cost Billions and Drive Doctors Out of Practice; California's MICRA Law is National Model
WHO: Former California Legislative Analyst William Hamm and
colleagues
Fred Hiestand, Californians Allied for Patient Protection
Kris Yahn, RN, Californians for Patient Care
Kathy Kneer, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California
John T. Kehoe, California Senior Action Network
Others
WHAT: Hamm and colleagues will release report showing personal
injury lawyers' efforts to raise California's lid on medical
liability awards would cause insurance rates to soar, lead
doctors to reduce or eliminate services for those most at
risk, and cost consumers, employers and taxpayers $6.5
billion in new healthcare costs.
WHEN: Monday, February 28, 2005
10 a.m.
WHERE: Via telephone and on-line.
Conference call dial in: 800-230-1059
Participant code: MICRA PRESS CONFERENCE
Webcast Web address: http://www.webmeeting.att.com
Meeting Number: 5114686455
Participant code: 737336
This call-in call-in adj. Being in a format such that listeners or viewers are invited to have their telephone conversations with the host or guests on a show broadcast to other listeners: a call-in radio show. n. news conference will be simulcast Simulcast is a portmanteau of "simultaneous broadcast", and refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time. with the high-speed high-speed adj. 1. Operated or designed for operation at high speed: a high-speed food processor. 2. Taking place at high speed: a high-speed chase. 3. on-line presentation. Materials will be available on-line for viewing or download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. . BACKGROUND: Now in its 30th year, MICRA has become a national model for healthcare cost containment cost containment, n the features of a dental benefits program or of the administration of the program designed to reduce or eliminate certain charges to the plan. , cited by President Bush as a gold-standard example for a national liability reform measure. Yet personal injury lawyers have served notice they intend to try to raise the law's $250,000 cap on non-economic damages this year. |
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