Patient Compensation Fund Under Fire

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Five constitutional amendments in Louisiana are up for voter decision, including one that would "stop raids on the Patient's Compensation Fund". Under current Louisiana law, the legislature can appropriate money from the Fund for other budgeting purposes. The amendment seeks to protect the fund by protecting it from legislative appropriation and "defining it as a private custodial fund to be used only for the benefit and protection of medical malpractice claimants and qualified health care providers". The Fund was created in 1975 to allow for affordable medical malpractice coverage for private health care providers and a source of money for compensation to victims of legitimate medical malpractice incidents.

Tort reform has been one of several vehicles used to attack the compensation and ability to sue negligent healthcare providers of victims of medical malpractice. Propositions like the Louisiana constitutional amendment seek to slow the loss of funding for victims of medical malpractice.

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