Doctors in Pennsylvania had high hopes for the possibility of caps on non-economic damages in their state. They had managed to get a bill for an amendment to the state constitution that would allow the caps, only to see it killed in committee by opponents of tort reform. Evidently, the legislators don’t want to take the issue to the people, who would have had to vote on the amendment. Will they be willing to answer to the consequences of their inaction? Young doctors already view Pennsylvania as a state to avoid :
In 2003, only 17% of residents who trained in Pennsylvania stayed there, according to the Pennsylvania Medical Society. The state had a net loss of 507 physicians from 2002 to 2003, and it dropped into the bottom 10 states for the number of young physicians in the state, PMS data show.
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