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Originally Posted by New Era
Total cost of malpractice insurance in the United States in 2010 was 2.4% of all medical expenditures.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickung.../#6064b6f32ff5
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/pr...lity-costs-us/
For doctors this is a definite cost they would like to see cut. That is pure profit right into their pockets. Any reductions would be minimal. That's a doctor's cost of doing business, not a "healthcare" cost. If the AMA really felt so strongly about this issue, there would be tort reform in place, and it would have happened a long time ago. |
It's ridiculous to say that cost of business does not factor in to the cost of service. That 2.4% translates to 54 billion dollars per year, and would be more than enough to pay for all obamacare subsidies. It also translates to saying that every household pays $450/year on fighting/insuring/preventing malpractice claims. As your article points out, a lot of that money goes towards healthcare insurance paying for unnecessary tests used solely to defend against malpractice claims and very little of that goes to patients who've been wronged.
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From the Harvard article.
”While some elements of medical liability costs — such as the high amount spent on legal expenses —represent inefficiencies and could be trimmed, Mello counters claims that money spent on medical liability is waste. “We shouldn’t forget that despite all its dysfunctions and inefficiencies, the medical liability system does produce social benefits,” she said. “It makes injured patients whole by providing compensation; it provides other forms of ‘corrective justice’ for injured persons, producing psychological benefits; and it may deter future injuries by signaling to health care providers that they will suffer sanctions if they practice negligently and cause injury.# The question is, can we reform the system to enhance these benefits and get them at lower cost?”
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There's a lot of opinion in that statement, but it isn't really contradicting anything I am saying. I wasn't arguing to get rid of malpractice altogether, just to limit them like Canada and some states do.
You seem to have a strong bias against doctors, which I don't share.