On the recordJuly 8, 2003
What the bill before us would suggest is if you or a member of your family or one of your children is a victim of medical malpractice, there would be a strict limitation in this bill of how much you could recover in court for what is known as noneconomic losses, pain and suffering. That strict limitation would be $250,000. To many people, $250,000 seems to be a very substantial sum of money, and it is until it is put in the perspective of the injuries we are discussing. Yesterday, in the course of the debate, I told the story of a 6-year-old boy in my home State of Illinois who went to a downstate clinic with a high fever. Unfortunately, he did not receive appropriate medical care and a jury decided he had been a victim of medical negligence.
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