Texas Health Care Ranked Last By Federal Study
Texas is continually touted as the poster child of how to lower health care cost: enact laws that limit patients’ rights to hold negligent care providers accountable. Study after study continues to show not only have costs not declined, but the quality of health care in Texas was ranked the lowest in the country by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Preventing medical errors will both reduce the cost of health care and more importantly, keep patients’ safe.
Learn more about medical negligence in AAJ’s report here: http://www.justice.org/resources/Medical_Negligence_Primer.pdf.