[ConsistentLibertarian]

I did a quick and dirty Google search to find rates for medical liability insurance. The AMA, in a four page flier promoting tort reform, cites rates between $7K and $12K a year for internists in LA. If you look at the annual cost of sustaining a private practice in internal medicine, that's going to be less than 5% of the total cost. Far less. So even if we eliminated all lawsuits, every single last one, not just frivolous lawsuits, and not just punitive damages, but every last lawsuit and every nickel in damages, that would save less than $45 out of that $900/month bill.

[d14truth]

From your example it appears that 20 families at $900/month could sustain/subsidize a 'medical practice' and that all families treatable above the 20 by the 'practice' could be maintained for free.

No physician should endeavor to care for more than 20 families, it doesn't pay, and neither do they. Killing freedom through dictates and regulation, IMHO.

My only pre-existing condition is age until another condition manifests itself, the same for everyone. We should all pay the same, unless 'profiling'/discrimination is allowed.