By: Hil
Yes. Limit the fees lawyers make and the rates insurers charge. You could even cap the fees doctors charge the patients when they botch a procedure? Did I just say something wrong?
View ArticleBy: James Brown
The cost of medical malpractice is such a gigantic issue for the republicans. Diana Furchtgott-Roth suggests that “Congress could use health reform legislation to give incentives to states to reduce...
View ArticleBy: Ivan
Ms. Furchtgott-Roth’s claim that malpractice costs 10 cents on the dollar is absolute nonsense. Total Malpractice Premiums collected in the US from Physicians and Hospitals are estimated at $10 Billion...
View ArticleBy: Frank Castle
Why don’t we limit all lawsuits and let people take their chances. I mean so what people die from a dangerous product, if we had less liability that dangerous product would cost less and the company...
View ArticleBy: thusted
Sounds like everyone is confusing costs. Doctors are generally constrained in charges by insurance company’s price schedules which are calculated as a percentage of Medicare fees. Malpractice fees are...
View ArticleBy: herewegoagain
So this republican hack wants to block our 7th Amendment rights to the point she’s lying about what this has done to Texas?? You know, the state that leads the nation in uninsured? Where health care...
View ArticleBy: andrew
I was intrigued to know how much doctors make compared to the cost of the malpractice insurance premiums. After a few minutes of pulling numbers from various sites, I came up with a pseudo conclusion....
View ArticleBy: Michael
If you want to increase the number of doctors, why not require all medical schools to accept all qualified applicants compared to the 30-35% they do accept (approx 16000 of 46000 last year). Med...
View ArticleBy: Attorney in NY
I’ve searched far and wide for the source of the factoid cited by Ms. Furchtgott-Roth (“10% of your medical bill goes to pay for malpractice insurance”) and only find her assertion of this number, with...
View ArticleBy: MarcJeric32
In the US we have about 1,100,000 lawyers; the number of trial lawyers and corporate lawyers engaged in medical malpractice field I estimate at about 100,000. We have a system of justice where anybody...
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