Spin-Doctoring by Doctors
Corpus Christi Caller-Times—November 30th, 2011
CORPUS CHRISTI — Just because Dr. Thomas Wilder and his special interest cohorts keep repeating the same message over and over (and over) again, doesn’t make it true.
His recent opinion piece (“Tort reform benefits speak for themselves,” Nov. 25) claims once again that patients should be gleeful that the insurance and medical industries were successful in 2003 when they stripped patients of our legal right to hold an unscrupulous physician, dangerous hospital, or careless nursing home legally accountable.
Wilder drags out the same tired arguments that proponents have been clinging to for years.
The problem is that each of their arguments have been debunked. For instance, Wilder claims that increases in physician supply in Texas are the result of limiting the rights of patients. The highly-respected, independent fact-checking organization PolitiFact rated a similar assertion by Governor Perry “false.”
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