We're the only county in the world that encourages malpractice lawyers to launch predatory lawsuits against our healthcare system.
You ever stop and think that maybe one way to lower Healthcare costs is to institute a "Loser Pays" System, this way a doctor does not have six months of his practice go to pay his malpractice insurance?
So funny how you guys bring up an argument, we debunk it, you move on to another lie, we debunk that, and then eventually you come back to the same lies.
Lawsuits add up to 1/2 of 1% of the total costs of healthcare. Ed Schultz squashed this last night and about a week ago. And consider that most of the lawsuits are legitimate. So what percent are frivilous? Does that add up to $1 billion? Not even worth discussing now. Lets get a great public option in place first, get the costs lowered, and then down the road we can deal with tort reform.
PS. You are only hurting yourself with this. Rich people and corporations will always have access to the best laywers. Secretly, they love lawyers. What they are pushing for with this is they want their doctors and corporations to be able to kill or injure you and pay very little when it happens. Is that wise? How much is your life worth?
Tort reform is needed. Its not just the cost of malpractice insurance. Doctors routinely order expensive and unnecessary tests just to cover their asses. Doctors in nursing homes and those that deliver severely handicapped children use any means possuble to keep vegetables alive in order to avoid lawsuits. If a single payers health system is the way to go why not a single payer legal system? How do you think the pols would feel about that? After.all, legal rep IS guaranteed by the Constitution. Health insurance is not.
Frickin hypocrites.
While all that is true, this is not the problem we have with healthcare. Nice distraction though. Not gonna work.