Vox
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- Jun 17, 2013
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Want to reduce healthcare costs??? get the damn lawyers out of it. put caps on malpractice cases and make the loser pay court costs, limit payment to lawyers to their costs plus 10%, no more % contingency contracts.
those changes alone would cut costs greatly, malpractice insurance cost would drop, duplicate and redundant testing would stop, defensive medicine would go away.
EMTALA is even bigger driver of the cost.
It HAS to be changed if medical costs are to be reduced.