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Obama Healthcare, Meet Kaydell Wright-Douglas. A Prominent Tampa Attorney

Posted Sep 4, 2009 by Al Mccray

Updated Sep 4, 2009 at 07:02 PM

The attorneys are saying, “Hey don’t blame us for the mistakes of doctors and the high cost of health insurance and those high insurance premiums”.

Attorneys have caused insurance companies to pay out billions of dollars in medical mal practice claims from lawsuits. The health care and insurance industries are crying out for reform.  Many doctors’ mal practice insurance premiums easily exceed a hundred thousand dollars plus annually. Many doctors just simply advertise to their patients that they don’t carry mal practice insurance. Others have simply joined partnerships or stopped practicing medicine.

Kaydell Wright-Douglas

Practicing law since 1971

She is a member of the Florida Bar, and the Bar of the District of Columbia (DC). She is a member of the George Edgecomb Bar Association and one of its former president (1991-1992), and of the Hillsborough County Bar Association. Her firm practices a variety of different types of law.
     
Kaydell practiced law for 10 years with the Education Section of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, and began practicing law in Tampa in 1982. She started with attorney Fred Minnis,Sr. and has worked with several distinguished attorneys before going into private practice.  She is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida and the US Bankruptcy Court.

Kaydell is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

Attorney Kaydell Wright-Douglas says, “As we all know, there is a national debate regarding President Obama’s plan for some type of universal health care. Opponents of the plan now in the Senate have staged rowdy confrontations with their representatives for the most part denouncing health care reform and often refusing to listen to the truth of the proposals, preferring instead to shout down attempts to explain the pros and cons of the bills currently before Congress. 

I believe this country desperately needs some type of a universal health care plan and think the plan which is ultimately passed by Congress should include the public option, which would benefit the largest number of people.

Currently only persons who are employed by large corporations, city and state governments, and the elderly universally have health care. The unemployed, the poor, many self-employed and those working for small businesses are often not insured. Additionally, those persons with pre-existing conditions or who have recently been laid off from their jobs find themselves in this number. Under President Obama’s plan persons in these latter groups would have the option of receiving coverage through plans offered by the federal government, without regard to their insurability. To the extent a public option is available, it will enable a large number of Americans to receive “well care” thereby helping to decrease the severity of illnesses and improving the life expectancy of the average citizen. It would also help eliminate the practice of many uninsureds of using the emergency room as a primary care center, rather than for the purpose it’s intended.

Many individuals believe Health Care reform will be too expensive and cite as their example the prospect of the government plan running the private plans out of business due to their shear size and financial clout. I believe that as long as the plans are optional, people who want and can afford “Cadillac” health care plans will continue to keep them, while the average Joe who finds him or herself out of a job can opt into the public plans and be guaranteed certain minimums of care.

The insurance lobby has people believing that “ the high cost of insurance is a direct result of runaway litigation costs” to the industry and would further have us believe the only way to curb those costs are through massive tort reform. They propose unreasonable caps on jury awards etc but fail to provide the public with the education showing how litigation against poor service in health care has improved the delivery of care.

For example, hospitals now routinely label the body part scheduled for surgery due in no small part to a local hospital’s negligent removal of the incorrect body part several years ago.

In closing, I am hoping some form of health care reform passes Congress in 2009, hopefully with the public option included.”

So without attorneys suing doctors for mistakes, how safe would our health care be? Will the cost of insurance decrease with tort reform? The attorneys and doctors will continue to battle.

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