These 98,000 people are conveniently forgotten about in this whole Tort reform debate.
Also conveniently forgotten is that only 1% of total health care costs go towards fraudulent malpractice claims.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/09/trial_lawyers_f.html
http://www.98000reasons.org/
The only reason why Republicans have a grudge against trial lawyers is because the majority of them contribute donations to the Democratic party.
98, 000 people each year die from medical malpractice - FACT.
Boston.com is the web address for the newspaper Boston Globe.
Very well known newspaper.
So your basically saying the patient deserves no rights? That the doctor and insurance company will not be responsible if something goes wrong?
Besides, like I said...only 1% of total health care costs are due to malpractice claims.
Remember, the health care industry makes up 14% of our total GDP, it's a multi-trillion dollar industry! A few million dollars here and there hardly makes a difference.
Prove me wrong Pro Con.
Between 44,000 and 98,000 is still a large number. So the difference is between one and two Boeing jets crashing each day. Still quite shocking.
pdooma: Actually the 98,000 figure is from the Institute of Medicine.
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