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Legislators have approved a massive medical
malpractice plan late Saturday, reluctantly agreeing
to state involvement and a tax break for
doctors.
The final bill combines parts of what legislators,
doctors, insurers and lawyers wanted to create,
three alternative insurance programs.
The first is a limited state-run plan to act as a
short-term stopgap that would lead to one of
the other two plans.
The proposal offers guaranteed insurance
through the state Board of Risk and Insurance
Management. Health care providers who have
no other insurance options would be covered up
to one million dollars.
Two other systems set up in the legislation
would be used later.
One would create a mutual company run and
paid for by doctors.
The other would create an assigned risk pool
mandating that casualty insurance companies
extend their coverage to high-risk doctors.
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