CHA strongly supports the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA) of 1975. MICRA was enacted in response to a medical malpractice insurance crisis that threatened California’s health care system. As then-Gov. Jerry Brown explained in his proclamation calling a special session of the Legislature to address the crisis, “The cost of medical malpractice insurance has risen to levels which many physicians and surgeons find intolerable. The inability of doctors to obtain insurance at reasonable rates is endangering the health of the people of this State, and threatens the closing of many hospitals.”