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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: i-node who wrote (7884)	7/30/2009 9:21:16 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) of 42652

WRT tort reform. I think no one who ignores it can be serious about healthcare reform. People publish ridiculously low estimates of the costs of "defensive medicine". Ask any hospital based doctor what percentage of admissions are so called "soft" admissions? Those are cases when the patient doesn't really need to be in the hospital, but the ER doc and the admitting doc take them in - because it is "safer" this way - meaning, less chances to get hit by a lawsuit - in the remote case when something actually does go wrong with that patient, even for unrelated reasons. ER docs cannot take ANY risk on behalf of a patient - so, why should they? They'll "work up" every case at considerable cost, and they'll admit most who want to be admitted - at several thousand bucks a pop.

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