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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Little Joe who wrote (72494)9/26/2009 7:01:16 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 224748
 
I do not buy the defensive medicine argument. If doctors were truly practicing defensive medicine, there would not be so much malpractice.

That doesn't follow at all. The vast majority of doctors could practice some degree of defensive medicine, with a decent sized majority going to truly excessive lengths, without greatly reducing actual malpractice, let alone reducing malpractice cases and awards.

It is my opinion that malpractice law suits are not usually frivolous and that there is far more malpractice that occurs that ever gets reported.

I agree. A majority of the cases probably are not frivolous. That's esp. likely to be true about a majority of the cases that win in court.

But a few frivolous cases that win or get a settlement can have a serious impact, and even those that don't get a dime still have an impact because of the time, money, and stress to mount a defense. Also the problem isn't just frivolous cases. Serious cases of real malpractice that result in too high of payouts, and questionable but non-frivolous cases, esp. ones that result in some payout have an impact.

If you add overcompensated serious cases, to questionable and frivolous cases you probably have a pretty large percentage. And even if it isn't so large, it doesn't have to be very large to cause problems.
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