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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (537812)12/21/2009 11:46:21 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1575779
 
Tort represents 3% of health care costs...if cut to zero, it would hardly have a measurable impact on cost.

I'm not sure where you got that number but it is NOT EVEN CLOSE.

The cost of malpractice and litigation, maybe. But that is not even a sizable fraction of the cost of liability exposure, which causes an estimated 200 billion in "defensive" medicine. Most docs I talk with say the 200 billion figure is a substantial UNDER-estimate.

Once again, you show yourself to have not the slightest idea what you're talking about.

This legislation may be the biggest payoff to trial lawyers in history.
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