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Who (or what?) is running our Health Services today ? This Website's Mission:To provide a document database plus a means for medical consumers to co-ordinate their efforts to arrive at an authentic consumer view on Medical Indemnity Insurance and its regulation. |
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April 29 "Wag the dog" The crisis hits ! As the Board of the largest medical indemnity insurer (one that insures most of the private doctors in NSW) announces that next week it will appoint a receiver to take over, disinformation is evident from various quarters. The consumer view is simply absent, consumers having been kept well away from the corridors of power. But see what MCA has to say. April 28 Having got no reply MCA writes again and also to other MPs about the situation and the media who now are reporting that the tax payer could face a $500,000,000 bill to cover the claims that the insurers are unable to pay! 2 April 2002 MCA writes a letter to the NSW Health Minister asking if the NSW Medical board is now the effective heavy squad enforcers for the MDO's who now decide who gets deregistered ? April 2002 An indemnity cover crisis is crisis is now said to exist and meetings are due between the States and federal government. 1 Jan 2002 A new year - and it seems that the cut-off of claims applied under the new Health Care Liability Act in NSW has generated a 'spike' in claims made in 2001 as solictor's office lights were said to have burned far into the nights as they worked to get negligence statement of claim documents strapped up and lodged with the courts 21 December 2001 NSW Government announces that it will assume responsibility for indemnifying all Visiting Medical Officers (VMOs) for the work they do on public patients in public hospitals in New South Wales. The cover also extends to all events including those that may result in claims at some future time. 11 September : Terrorist action in New York sends a shockwave through the world insurance business and is said in time to effect all types of insurance 1 July : With the passage of the Health Care Liability bill into law consumers now have to wait until late 2002 to have any official opportunity of expressing their views, which is when a review of the operation of the Act is due to take place. This however has not stopped one medical consumer expressing her views of the situation as these letters testify. 28 June NSW Health Care Liability bill moves through all stages in Legislative Council , and will become law when assent is given later this year. 19 June to 21June the bill moves through all stages in the Assembly 29 May CAN groups meet with crossbench MLC's seeking a path to a public inquiry. MCA newsletter cites HIH failure as indicating urgent reason that Health Care Liability Bill should be abandoned and a public inquiry called instead. NSW Parliament 12 April: Notice about the bill by EastHills 9 March ...ALP Panania branch votes for public inquiry prior to any bill being put before parliament. Sydney 7 March ... NSW Minister for Health disappears...
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