should the government pay doctors medical malpractice?
this would free up doctors to practice medicine.
the government subsidizes flood insurance and fire insurance, etc...
guru
No way am I paying for a doctor's mistakes and negligence.
Love Canada.
Wouldn't the doctors save money if they didn't make so many mistakes
Boozette Jones
Poor Doctors these days.
They get 500 bucks for a cataract surgery, after they pay taxes, insurance, and bureaucratic nonsense how much is that like 200 dollars for a surgery!
A boob job is a much better investment than medical school these days.
No wonder nobody wants to go into the medical field do you blame them?
A good Vegas stripper makes a lot more money than a Doctor these days and they don't have the debt or time invested or the responsibilities.
ssparkle63
if the doctors work for the government.
Tim
You can cry injustice, however, the bottomline is this. Taxpayer funded bureaucrats had appointed these GPs to be medically fit to practice. When these GPs prove to be incompetent then the onus of responsibility is to the medical authorities who employed them in the first place to their respective posts as surgeons, GPs, interns and resident specialists.
If there is some malpractice case outstanding and the GPs are culpable then it is the government, through their incompetent selection of these incompetent GPs in the first place who must pay ex gratia for malpractice ipso facto.
Bubba
The current system is unstable. The lawyers can ask for millions of compensation because it DOES cost millions over the lifetime of the victim to provide for his medical care.
Medical malpractice is RARE (total paid for medical malpractice is only 1% of total health care expenditure). But because of the high liability, doctors are playing it safe, even performing procedures that are not in the best interest of the patient (otherwise the patient will sue him asking him why DIDN't you do this and that, although this and that wouldn't give him any benefit). This is one source of the high cost of medicine in the US.
Having a universal health care would alleviate this. If everything is covered in a universal system, the lawyers cannot claim that the medical care for the victim will cost million. They will be covered already. This will drive most of the lawyers out of the system, give doctors breathing room so they can put some common sense into their practice, and eventually contribute in bringing the total cost down.
alana
The government should set fees on services for all doctors and also on insurance companies they must take what ever the amt is set by the gov and then the insurance will have limits on how much they will have to pay on malpractice cause lawyers will not be able to sue but for a gov set price. It would solve the entire problem but for meds and that should also have set prices on each drug according to man cost and some other research costs that must be added, if the drugs were fairly priced that would solve another problem.
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