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No one cares about the COST of health care when their donors would be affected.
No one addressed the high cost of malpractice insurance. Do we really need to prove how high it is per year when it has been beat to death? If you are a doctor and have to pay a hundred grand or more per year, would you not pass it on to the patient?
Overhead. Doctors have to hire a whole staff and pay competitive wages and benefits.
Office space and utilities
Lab service costs for equipment and overhead.
Health care is costly, because anyone can sue anyone for any amount of money. Texas reduced costs by instituting Tort Reform. Doctors streamed into Texas after that.
Competition was not addressed in Obamacare either. Very important but not even considered. We can buy car insurance on line and across states. They compete with each other for our money. Do the same with health insurance.
Just two ideas that the left could have worked on and would have had the GOP involved. Nope, they do NOT want to lower the cost. They (the left) want socialized medicine, period.
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http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.c...t-page-8/?_r=0
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A lot of people seem to have taken up the cause of tort reform. Why isn’t it included in the health care legislation pending on Capitol Hill?
A. Because it’s a red herring. It’s become a talking point for those who want to obstruct change. But [tort reform] doesn’t accomplish the goal of bringing down costs.
Q. Why not?
A. As the cost of health care goes up, the medical liability component of it has stayed fairly constant. That means it’s part of the medical price inflation system, but it’s not driving it. The number of claims is small relative to actual cases of medical malpractice.
Q.But critics of the current system say that 10 to 15 percent of medical costs are due to medical malpractice.
A. That’s wildly exaggerated. According to the actuarial consulting firm Towers Perrin, medical malpractice tort costs were $30.4 billion in 2007, the last year for which data are available. We have a more than a $2 trillion health care system.
That puts litigation costs and malpractice insurance at 1 to 1.5 percent of total medical costs. That’s a rounding error. Liability isn’t even the tail on the cost dog. It’s the hair on the end of the tail.
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That doesn't even take into account that many malpractice suits are legitimate and the only recourse for those victims of incompetent doctors/hospital employees...is to sue.
I'm betting that a whole bunch of folks screaming about tort reform, would quickly change their minds....should they or a loved one be the victim of medical incompetency.
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