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Analysis: See you in health court? Olga Pierce
UPI, July 7, 2006 In keeping with the creation of specialized courts to handle other types of complicated disputes, such as bankruptcy and labor disputes, “a growing chorus of voices is calling for the establishment of a health court with jurisdiction over medical malpractice cases,” reports United Press International. Focusing on Common Good’s efforts in developing and promoting the health court concept, UPI Health Business Correspondent Olga Pierce relates Common Good Chair Philip K. Howard’s view that “‘[h]ealthcare is suffering a kind of nervous breakdown’” and that was is needed to fix it is “‘a system of justice reliable enough to uphold choices about what’s good care.’” Pierce goes on to quote Common Good General Counsel Paul Barringer as saying that, while one goal of health courts is “‘to make justice more reliable,’” their “‘goal is to improve the practice of medicine’” as well.
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