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Doctors say 'defensive medicine' drives up health care costs | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Headline | National News

When we put the rest of our healthcare under the federal government's umbrella -- and we will, surely, in the next few months -- do we expect lawsuits to go up, or down?

The left supports trial lawyers, overwhelmingly.

The right supports doctors, overwhelmingly.

But when the left is now ~paying~ for the trials and the malpractice suits, and they realize how much of the money is going to the trial lawyers (rather, the oversight committees will PUBLISH these numbers now!), will they introduce tort reform?

Will we see lawsuits drop? Payouts decline? Will we lose funding for defensive medicine, and as a result, see lower costs, with an associated cap on medical lawsuits?

Frankly, I think that'd be a good thing, should the dominoes fall that way.


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I can't see the government taking over health care having much effect of defensive medicine since they refuse to do anything significant to reign in trial lawyers. The anesthesiologists I work for added a prequal to all cases. It costs around 75 dollars and all it is are tests for information that the patients could tell us. The problem is the patients lie to us because they know they won't get treatment or the costs blow up. Still if they lie and we do the procedure we still get sued and lose when they die. So we charge an extra 75 dollars. Do you think we will stop doing this just because the government won't cover it? People will just have to pay out of pocket. If not, no procedure.

Makes me wonder how much will be shifted to out of pocket if you want the quality care. Sorry but all Obamacare will do is add a layer of bureaucracy to health care and drive up costs. In the end it will still be the rich that get the best care because they can pay out of pocket.
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