med-mal reform

Standing on a wobbly soapbox:

“We stood up to the trial lawyers’ interest groups and the governor to make sure doctors would be able to stay in our state without the fear of baseless, exorbitant lawsuits. The costs of those lawsuits were being passed along to patients, and in an already broken health care system, we had to act.

First of all, if a large portion of those suits were "baseless", they would (or should) have been contested, and legal fees reassigned to the losing plaintiff. But setting aside that plainly illogical claim, let's look at what motivated him to make that declaration: