Government
Wyoming voters back tort reform
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted March 8, 2004
More than 70% of Wyoming voters support medical liability reform, according to a poll commissioned by the Wyoming Medical Society and the Wyoming Hospital Assn.
Respondents asked to rank the seriousness of five health care issues listed the cost of liability insurance second only to the cost of prescriptions.
Wyoming is one of the states the AMA says is in a liability crisis.
Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal in late October 2003 called for a state constitutional change to allow noneconomic damage caps so that debate over the issue could "venture beyond the hypothetical." Two-thirds of the Legislature must pass an amendment for voters to be able to consider it in the November election.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/03/08/gvbf0308.htm.