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Aren't we always railing about tort reform? What happened to the girl is tragic. But how much compensation would be enough? $25,000 would have been an insult. But not 10x that. I think there is a clause with membership in Kaiser that you agree to binding arbitration rather than suing.

I have had them for 30 years. A Kaiser surgeon, who teaches at Stanford, performed an extremely risky operation on my husband who is now fit as a fiddle. We both had Kaiser and a $300,000 surgery and a week in intensive care, plus two weeks in rehab, plus three months of infusions cost us NOTHING. No deductible, no co-pay, nothing other than our reasonable premium with employer coverage.

My only complaint is that I had to wait two months for back surgery because, while the doctor was available, an operating room was not. I finally complained to member services and was operated on the next day. I know people have Kaiser horror stories, but my experience has been good.

Kaiser isn't all bad. They did a good job of handling my cancer in 1985. They performed 4 open heart surgeries on my oldest son at ages 5, 10, 15 and 17. He lived to age 32 before a poor decision to give him Z-Pak for pneumonia killed him with sudden cardiac death in May 2012. That was an error made by a PA who failed to read his chart before choosing Z-Pak for pneumonia. He had artificial valves and took Coumadin to keep to PT in range. The day before the Z-Pak prescription his PT was 2.5....perfect. After a 5 day series of Z-Pak, his PT was over 8.5...life threatening. He died about 13 hours after that PT measurement.

Ditto! Is more than 250,000 going to bring their daughter back? NOT!
This is precisely why we now have government health care! What the hell
Is anyone going to get when they nave to sue the government which will
not be allowed! It is a shame this girl passed however no amount of money will bring her back! She was sick long before parents brought her
to the doctor how much responsibility should they have in her passing?