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To: Murrey Walker who wrote (116474)	7/24/2009 5:19:58 PM
From: spiral3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542787

the tremendous amount of tests and procedures ordered by the docs to cover their backside. Can you say Bingo!...often done mind you in the complete absence of any reason by way of scientific evidence. Folks go on about what they think of as Moral Hazard via unlimited healthcare, whereas the real moral hazard, bolstered by unending advances in medicine, is Perverse Incentive. This is not a normal let alone a free market. Healthcare is not a commodity, but still needs to be rationed rationally in some way.

To: Murrey Walker who wrote (116474)	7/24/2009 8:36:17 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542787

Case in point. My wife recently broke her wrist in a fall. Simple, right? It turned out to be a $100,000.00 trip. At the anecdotal level, my wife had the very opposite experience. She fell and broke her arm at the shoulder level. Treatment was terrific, physical therapy was terrific, and costs were not terribly unreasonable. No doctor; no physical therapists mentioned any thing about fear of lawsuits. Someone needs to do some serious work separating political hype from the realities. I've seen the same numbers someone else posted here about the low amount of costs due to successful suits. We need, of course, to recognize those are not all the costs. But I've not seen serious data that addresses that.