RFK Jr.’s Trial Lawyer Ties Raise Red Flags
We must ensure that all future health decisions are made with the best interests of all Americans in mind — not the financial motives of profit-seeking plaintiffs’ lawyers.
(UT., filed August 23, 2024): Arguing that chargemaster rates and other list prices set by healthcare providers, but rarely paid and not actually received by the plaintiff’s providers, do not reflect the reasonable value of medical care. Awarding phantom damages does not serve the compensatory purpose of tort law or advance the goals of the collateral source rule and States increasingly provide that plaintiffs may only recover amounts actually paid and accepted for their medical treatment, not list prices.
We must ensure that all future health decisions are made with the best interests of all Americans in mind — not the financial motives of profit-seeking plaintiffs’ lawyers.
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