Government Health Insurance and Law Suits

The political bias in health insurance is evident for all those who want to see it.

One: Adding the number the patients but not adding more doctors. In fact, developing disincentives for doctors to practice family medicine.

Two: Driving out of business over 1500 competing private insurance companies with the one public health insurer that will have no competition.

Three: Installing rationing of benefits under the guise of “suggesting” treatments that doctors ought to give. All this to reduce costs, as has been standard procedure in other counties offering such health care.

What could save ENORMOUS costs but is never mentioned is tort reform. Even though the government will tell the doctor how to practice, he or she could still be sued for malpractice. All that would be needed is a cap on lawsuits, something the lawyers are successfully lobbying against.