Did state Senate stub toe on medical malpractice bill?
Oklahoma lawmakers are scrambling to determine whether a bill passed by the state Senate with the intent of limiting exposure of doctors to medical malpractice lawsuits could have the opposite result for many.
Senate Bill 762 was written to help physicians, Senate author Anthony Sykes, R-Oklahoma City, told his colleagues Tuesday during floor discussions of the bill.
"I think what happened was there were two versions of the bill ... and the one that got passed was the wrong one," said Ervin Yen, R-Oklahoma City, who is both a state senator and cardiac anesthesiologist. "It was certainly a mistake. We are trying to get it fixed. Surely we can."
Sen. Sykes did not respond directly to requests for comment, but asked a representative of the Oklahoma State Medical Association to respond to questions about the bill on his behalf.
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Sometimes it is hard to keep in mind that we are PAYING these clowns to do this kind of thing. We are also paying all of their expenses, providing a staff, and paying for them to go on tax-payer funded "fact finding missions". Then they pass the "wrong version" of an important piece of legislation. If it weren't so sad it would be funny.
