Taxes may have to be increased to cover public programs such as AIDS and cancer. Patients may have to seek treatment in states where malpractice coverage is more commensurate with enlightened public policy. High-risk patients will be shunted aside or may have to go to other states for treatment. Injured patients should get unlimited economic damages for lost wages, future earnings, costs of medical care including future medical care, and custodial care. No changes in this part of the law are indicated.
Patients can sue for damages when they've incurred civil liability.
Enlightened public policy envisions that the focus of concern in matters of civil liability will be benefits for injured persons, not lawyers' contingency fees. The UAPD concurs.