Quote:
Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
As I said. The average physician pays 3.2% of their revenue to malpractice insurance. 3.2%. Do you feel that the 3.2% is causing the health care industry to have skyrocketing prices as a whole?
|
first random result in google for "cost of malpractice insurance"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in610102.shtml
3.2%
huh?
next result... something i already mentioned... many cities and counties have a shortage of obgyn's because they can't afford to practice
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-hco053105.php
next result...
http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporte...alpractice.htm
"In 1997, we paid $4.4 million to cover all of our clinical faculty and the hospital, and now we are paying $24 million in premiums,"
next result...
http://www.iii.org/media/hottopics/i...ce/medicalmal/
"Among the other factors driving up prices was a reduced supply of available coverage as several major insurers exited the medical malpractice business because of the difficulty of making a profit."
should i go on? or do you guys know how to use google?