A doctor, who is also a politician, crossed ethical lines when the state legislature moved to put stricter regulations on the medical malpractice insurance industry. The doctor in question stepped right into the eye of the storm and marched into the Senate leader\u2019s office, full of vigorous objections. The bill the doctor disliked was actually assigned to one of his committees and, coincidentally, it sat there without any debate and died.<\/p>\n
The process of killing a bill that someone dislikes at a political level is not unusual. What is different here is that the doctor owns a medical malpractice insurance firm that would have been regulated by the new law if it had passed. Further investigation into the situation shows that if the bill had passed, the doctor\u2019s company would have had to significantly hike its cash surplus and rewrite their policies for charging customers. In other words, it would have forced (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A doctor, who is also a politician, crossed ethical lines when the state legislature moved to put stricter regulations on the medical malpractice insurance industry. The doctor in question stepped right into the eye of the storm and marched into…<\/span><\/p>\n