Seems like lawyers should be able to address the enourmous legal cost component of healthcare. As I understand it this was an off limits area for Bill CLinton, is it more of the same with Obama? Legal costs are untouchable and focus on what they are not trained in, the medical part?
Alan V
obama rules, hillary drools
firebird703xx
With Obama's ideology of throwing money at a problem, I wouldn't put it past him to put room in the budget to subsidize the cost of lawsuits against doctors.
wasacon
Hillary is Secretary of State now, so not so much working on the health care plan.
I love your idea of a bunch of lawyers (Congress) being responsible for doing something about other lawyers who sue doctors. I love it! You would think if anyone could reign in the legals costs, it would be the brain trust of the U.S. House of Representatives.
I also applaud your terminology. Lets stop calling it medical malpractice and call it what it is - medical legal costs.
I have no answers, but I love your question!
Chris
Malpractice is a joke but it draws a ton of attention. Be realistic. Assume that you are a hospital that employs 100 doctors. Each doctor makes $ 300,000 per year and each doctor pays $ 80,000/year in malpractice insurance. Now assume malpractice reform goes through and it cuts the malpractice insurance by half. In what world do you think the employers are going to keep paying doctors the same wage knowing that they are taking more of it home? Why would they keep paying $ 300,000 instead of reducing it to $ 260,000.
Also, be careful what you wish for. Malpractice in some fields is high because the costs of a mistake are massive. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if an OB/GYN makes an error that causes a child to have a life long defect requiring long term in-home care, $ 250,000 (one of the proposed caps) will not do very much to remedy the situation/cover the costs.
greydoc6
The American Association of Trial Lawyers are major contributors to both political parties, but especially to the Democrats. Obama told the AMA this week that he does not plan to introduce legislation to reduce caps on malpractice awards.
gordo e
My answer: Always the wrong thing. These two liberals are always good at making a great speech, but as soon as you give it any second thought, you soon realize it's a pipe dream.
But I think this sums it up even better;
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