Posted on 01/27/2014 9:13:57 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
The cost of defensive medicine, those tests and procedures ordered solely to protect hospitals and physicians from medical malpractice (Med-Mal) litigation, are estimated to cost as much as $200 billion each year. That’s more than seven percent of all the money spent on health care annually.
A number of Republicans tried—to no avail—to include some aspect of tort reform in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). So did Bart Gordon (D-TN), a Blue Dog Democrat, and he also failed. In the summer of 2009, Howard Dean, a physician, onetime presidential candidate, and former chair of the Democratic National Committee, was asked why there is nothing in the health care proposals about this issue. Dean’s reply: “The reason that tort reform is not in the bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Ambulance chasing lawyers are huge contributors to the democrats in something like 96% to 4% Republican.
It will be a hard to institute tort reform as it is to cancel a government program or office. (The Rural Electrification Board is still up and running.)
The purpose was never to reduce costs.
The purpose is to control utterly.
One of the reasons so many women are bein cut up in c-sections is that they are at very low risk of “complications”. The doctors tend to take a “better legally safe than sorry” and just cut her open.
Nice.
Agreed
Was it Howard Dean who pretty much openly admitted that this is correct, but they could not risk p*ssing off the trial lawyers if they wanted to get a bill passed?
Well, Duh. The Plaintiff Attorneys are perfectly happy with juries that don't know Shineola about the Medical profession. Ask John Edwards if any Doctors would have laughed out loud at him when he was telling Juries he was "channeling" dead/crippled babies.
Yup. That’s in the article, just a few words after the excerpt.
Always Remember; lawyers are an incredibly beneficial garden soil amendment.....
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