...less than 1 percent to rising health care costs? If this isn't true, can someone provide me a more accurate figure? Since, this is apparently the main reason conservatives think health care costs are so high.
brown9500.v10
Republicans lie on a regular basis.
bash
Medical malpractice claims, inflation-adjusted, are dropping significantly, down 45 percent since 2000. Yet there has been no corresponding drop in health-care costs, which ought to tell us that something beside malpractice litigation is driving health care costs.
Medical malpractice premiums, inflation-adjusted, are nearly the lowest they have been in over 30 years.
Medical malpractice premiums are less than one-half of one percent of the country's overall health care costs.
Medical malpractice claims are a mere one-fifth of one percent of health care costs and at no time in more than 30 years have premiums and claims have never been greater than 1% of our nation's health care costs.
Medical malpractice insurer profits are higher than the rest of the property casualty industry, which has been remarkably profitable over the last five years.
The periodic premium spikes that doctors experience, as they did from 2002 until 2005, are not related to claims but to drops in investment income.
In state after state that passed "tort reform" laws, patients have lost significant legal rights and many unsafe health care providers are now unaccountable. But none of the promised benefits of "tort reform" — lowered health care costs and more physicians, for example — have materialized. http://www.insurance-reform.org/TrueRiskF.pdf
mycoldfeet
One percent of the billions spent is a lot, especially if you have to pay off student loans and pay the outragous malpractice insurance cost. Is that one percent whats been paid out? Or does that include the insurance premiums? Most countries with a national insurance plan have a cap, but the lobbyist for lawers are spending millions to make sure that doesn't happen.
Daisy
I am sure that medical malpractice ins cost have increased health care cost. However a lot more goes into it; for instance when people without ins need medical attention they go to the emergency room at a hospital. Rather than see a GP. When you go to a doctors office they want payment upfront, you can go to a hospital and they"ll bill you later. Some never pay the bill and that increases the cost of health care.
When those anti reform state they don't want to pay for those who don't have ins they are deluded because they already are paying.
Orignal From: Isn't true that medical malpractice lawsuits contribute...?
Post a Comment