House Proceeding 11-07-09 on Nov 7th, 2009 :: 0:08:55 to 0:12:50
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Bruce Braley: i yield to the gentleman from iowa, mr. braley. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. braley: mr. speaker, during this entire health care debate, a lot from our friends on the other side of the i'm about something called medical liability reform. but all talking about this point, you

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Speech By: Bruce Braley

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Bruce Braley: have not heard one word about patient safety. and if you want to talk about real meaningful health c reform, it's important to talk about the most critical aspect of true, meaningful health care reform, standing up for patients.

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Bruce Braley: patient safety -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. mr. braley: who will speak for the patient? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. we will just wait -- we will

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Bruce Braley: just wait until all members are willing to respect the house. the gentleman will suspend until we have order.

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Bruce Braley: we can wait a long time. the gentleman will suspend until we have order. mr. braley: we know who will speak for the patients. we have the reports from the highly respected, nonpartisan, institutes of medicine on patient saf

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Bruce Braley: the first one, patient safety, achieving a standard for care. the second one, case every ros and to err is human, building a safer system. what did the institute of medicine tell us about the state of patient safety? they told us the most significant way to reduce the cost of medical malpractice is

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Bruce Braley: to emphasize patient safety by retchigse number of preventable medical everye they also told us that's the only way to bring about meaningful reform. they also tell us medical l as many as 90,000 patients every year. and that if it ranked would be the sixth leading cause of

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Bruce Braley: death in america. they told us that every year there are 15 million incidents of medical harm in this country and that patie safety is delivery of medical care. that's why they aren't felling you about what the institutes of medicine reported the cost ofed me kohl errors is in this country.

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Bruce Braley: they reported in their studies that e medical errors add $17 billion to $28 dollars of cost, most of it in additional medical care we end up paying for as consumers of when you multiply that over the 10 years of this bill that means it's

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Bruce Braley: billion to $280 billion if we continue to ignore this problem. that's why democrats and the institutes of medicine are standing up for patients and that's why you should reject this motion to recommit. you hear our friends talk about

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Bruce Braley: what happened in california in 1976. when they put a $250,000 cap on payments for quality of life damages. what they don't tell you is that the value of that cap today, in 2009, is $64,000. if you adjust that cap at the same rate of medical inflation,