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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Rambi who wrote (118970)8/20/2009 6:11:04 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 542904
 
Malpractice costs were only a small slice of the pie that pushes our costs up, which surprised me, since we hear so much about them.

Rambi, this point has been made over and over again for at least the past 15 years in study after study. I remember hearing a talk given at the Cleveland Clinic (yes, Bob, in your home town--although I heard the talk on NPR) on this very topic back in the 90s. It is a great example of how, if people keep repeating the same thing on news shows and talk radio in a voice that screams certainty, the real facts simply do not matter. Anecdotal "evidence" beats down the studies. The studies are too complicated, they are too hard for most people to read. And if you try to tell people what the studies actually show, they will still believe the facts that they believe they know.
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