Saturday, January 15, 2011

An Education About Hospitals

The Alabama Supreme Court has voided a judgement against Baptist Health in Montgomery in a decision that dissenting justices said could give all Alabama Hospitals a fairly easy route to legal immunity from fiscal punishment for wrongdoing. From the Montgomery Advertiser story:



The justices ruled in a 4-to-3 decision that governmental immunity should be extended to Baptist Health because of its relationship with state universities.




     Dissenting Justices said the decision will likely result in other hospitals forming similar relationships with Universities to bock lawsuits against them.

     Decisions like this show why so much money is spent on the election of Alabama Supreme Court Judges. Alabama has the most expensive judicial election in America, and for some parties, the expense is worth every penny.

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