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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (18690)	8/8/2010 10:46:26 AM
From: Lane3	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 42652

In a recent study published about 2 months ago, a committee reviewed thousands of cases and concluded that only about 4% had possible cause to sue.....in fact, only about 4% of that 4% actually did sue.... So the claim of fear of litigation is a red herring..... Huh? I'd need to know more about that study. That the patients in only a small percentage of some unknown set of cases sued tells us nothing about the fear of litigation. I don't see any basis for forming that conclusion in what you posted. The whole point of defensive medicine is to avoid being sued so the active practice of defensive medicine would tend to reduce the number of legitimate lawsuits. If there are only a few legitimate lawsuits in the set, a very plausible explanation is that there was a strong proactive defense by the physicians, which would contradict your conclusion. I don't see any way to get from your data to your conclusion. Please connect the dots if you can.

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