Malpractice lawsuits
induce defensive medicine that costs a fortune for insurance
companies, the doctors and other providers covered and, ultimately
you, the public. This is a fact ObamaCare conveniently overlooks.
A Massachusetts Medical
Society study found that five out of six doctors order procedures
and referrals that amount to about 25% of total medical costs, for
the sole purpose of doctor legal protection. According to the
Pacific Research Institute, defensive medicine wastes more than $200
billion a year.
Therefore, the entire
medical-malpractice system has to be changed. There could be a
no-fault system, a pool to reimburse those injured from medical
errors or accidents. Judges would be medical experts, not inexpert
juries, who are swayed by sharp trial lawyers, seeking one third of
the proceeds. The no-fault pool would be funded by a small tax on
health-insurance premiums.
The major problem to this
simple solution is that over 90% of tort lawyer political
contributions go to the Democrat party. This accounts for the fact
tort reform is never one of the necessary reforms the consumer gets.
(See the Earl J Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)
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