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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth

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To: jttmab who wrote (27468)	10/6/2004 1:47:09 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 173976

Legislation imposing a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages would result in 4 million more people receiving health insurance, according to Congress's Joint Economic Committee. "The broken medical liability system has a great impact on access to care and what happens to a patient who can't find a physician in his or her hour of need," said Donald Palmisano, the immediate past president of the American Medical Association, which supports the bill. He said veteran doctors in specialty areas such as obstetrics and neurosurgery are retiring, and a recent survey of physicians found that up to 70 percent order tests or procedures in case they are sued. Did you miss that? You do realize that often those extra tests bring risk to the patient with them, right? And if the bill would "benefit" the doctor, presumably putting more money in his pocket, why would you assume at least some of them, say the new doctors starting their practices, would not lower patient charges to make themselves more competitive? BTW, Brit, in that socialized medicine utopia you live in, what are YOUR rights to sue an NHS doctor that screws you up? Eh? Yes? We're waiting.

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