Letters to the Editor
The Los Angeles Times
VIA EMAIL
September 30, 2003
Dear Editor:
RE: Uninsured in US Show the Biggest Increase
in a Decade (9/30/03)
While your article cited “rising health
care costs” as a major reason more Americans are uninsured,
it would have been appropriate to reference one of the main causes
for these higher prices, litigation.
As litigation drives up costs for employers,
fewer can offer health coverage, and those that do must ask employees
to pay a bigger share. As prices go up, fewer people can afford
it, and the problem worsens.
Litigation against doctors, hospitals and other
providers also has a direct impact on the cost of health care,
which prices health coverage out of reach of more American every
day.
No single thing will completely cure our healthcare
problems, but curbing excessive and abusive litigation will play
a huge part.
Sincerely,
Linda Okun, Executive Director
Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse – Los Angeles
Linda Okun is the Executive Director of Citizens
against Lawsuit Abuse in Los Angeles, a nonprofit, grassroots
public education organization. Write to her c/o CALA at P.O. Box
262 - Glendora, CA 91740, or via email at maryann@maryannmaloney.com.
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