Did you know most reliable estimates peg the costs of malpractice litigation at 2% of health care costs?

by pennstatelive

http://washingtonindependent.com/55535/tort-reform-unlikely-to-cut-health-care-costs

http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/09/would_tort_reform_make_much_di.html

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.torts18dec18,0,1282218.story

Captain Awesome
Did you know how much of a Doctors salary goes towards malpractice insurance just to protect them from malpractice lawsuits? If they didn't have to pay that, health care costs would be significantly lower.

Shovel Ready
These estimates are totally bogus. They ignore all the secondary costs of defensive, CYA medicine necessitated by the lawsuits, and the tertiary opportunity cost of lives wasted by people making their living off the lawsuits instead of doing something useful for society.

zaza 1ST GRANDCHILD 2/2010!!!
Isn't that better than a punch in the face?

as.erwin
You are completely missing the point of the total cost...
Those studies don't take into account that because of those suits, doctors in some states are required to carry a certain amount of insurance against malpractice... (in some cases it is in excess of $ 1 million)... How do you think they make that money back? They raise their prices! Not just docs, hospitals, nursing homes, etc...

STUDY ECONOMICS!

Em
In states where tort reform has been enacted, only insurance companies have benefited. This is more evidence of the need for health care reform.

robzuc97
Yet the fact that America's spending on entertainment was equal to what was spent on health CARE (not insurance which is what the smoke & mirror bill is trying to control & regulate)... the same hypocrisy applied when Iraq was a "War for Oil" and now the Chinese own all the Iraq contracts and the outrgae over losing 4,000 American lives there while we simultaneously lose 41,000 per year on our national highways... or 10X the amount lost in wars just counting them from 1960! Progressives like to cry numbers when it suits their purpose...

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