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Originally Posted by SuckOnThis
Do some research. Malpractice suits barely make a dent in health costs unlike what Bush might tell ya. Rising health costs are due to outrageous drug prices and outrageous costs of doctors, hospitals and other health services.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8551575/ |
Maybe you should do a little more research yourself, like click some of the other links on that page...
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHe...ement/tb1/1130
Malpractice suits cause Physicians to do what is called "Defensive Medicine" in order to win when a suit is filed. This practice makes Physicians do unnecessary tests (expensive tests) and prescribe unnecessary medicines, just to cover their asses in the event of a suit, all of which costs you more, there for making Health Care more expensive:
"59% of respondents said they ordered unnecessary diagnostic tests -- most often imaging studies. Seventy percent of emergency physicians said they ordered unnecessary scans.
52% of all physicians said they referred patients when referrals were not medically necessary.
A third of physicians said they prescribed drugs that weren't medically necessary, and the same percentage said they performed unnecessary invasive procedures.
Breast cancer was a particular target for defensive medicine, with radiologists either referring questionable results for biopsy or refusing to perform mammograms altogether.
There was no link between physicians' actual experience of litigation and their practice of defensive medicine, but physicians who lacked "confidence in their liability insurance" and those who expressed concern about the financial burden of insurance premiums were more likely to practice defensive medicine.
Physicians are more likely to refuse care to workers' compensation patients and obese patients, both groups perceived as potentially litigious."