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What does your "nonsense" reply have to do with what I wrote?
"Tort reform" does not absolutely eliminate all exposure to litigation and make it impossible to sue a negligent practitioner, as you seem to believe it does. It limits and caps it. The doctor is still liable for malpractice, and may be inclined to heavily over-test his patients, regardless of cost, to create a trail of defense against a malpractice plaintiff. Which is the only point I offered. Your reply indicates that you did not read my post at all.
By the way, a majority of those "medical mistakes" are not medical at all, they are clerical. The doctor does everything right, but clerical errors have either corrupted the data the doctor has to work with, or the execution of his proper orders. The doctor himself has culpability in only a very tiny fraction of those 200,000 deaths.
ROFLMAO That's the most novel and ludicrous excuse I've ever heard -- clerks are killing all these hospital patients.
Doctors over prescribe services because it makes them money. That's why there's no difference in the cost between tort states and non-tort states. "defensive medicine" is just the excuse doctors give when caught padding the bill.
One might ask, if malpractice suits cause doctors to be more careful, isn't that a good thing? Almost 200 thousand people per year die in hospitals from medical errors.
But their idea of being careful is to do more tests and procedures "just in case," and those can and do kill people, especially the elderly, the chronically ill and small children who can't tolerate invasive procedures as easily.
I like the Factcheck.org website to help me sort through political rhetoric and misdirections......not that any site can be completely trusted 100%, but I think they do a good job to help people find the right path to research further.
They have had a recent posting on the healthcare bill:
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