We already have special courts for bankruptcies. Assigned judges handle complicated creditor and debtor claims, tax liens, workers compensation and other complex matters.
One of the complications that prove costly in the health care picture today, that requires change, is malpractice procedure and its extremely high cost. The latter problem is attributed primarily to the outrageous amounts of lawsuits against providers. And the extent of fraud that permeates the system.
The upshot of all these suits: The high cost of defensive medicine and doctor malpractice insurance premiums.
There is a practical solution: Arbitration courts made up of judges who are trained in science and medicine. That would eliminate awards attributed to “junk science.”
The courts would also eliminate huge attorney cuts of the award proceeds and would put a cap on outrageous sums that ordinarily come from ignorant jurists. While seeing that patients are amply compensated for actual malpractice. The courts would be financed from MD insurance premiums.
Problem: Lawyers now give well over 90% of their political dollars to the Democrat party in Congressional control of health insurance reform.
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