Reply #5: State that enacted 'tort reform' Have not seen any lowering of malpractice [View All]

[havocmom]

insurance costs, so you are right, his proposals protect insurance companies but don't reduce health care costs.

Yes, there are some bad suits, but the facts are personal suits are down, corporate suits are up. The whole thing is a ruse.

Malpractice rates are up because the market isn't preforming to the satisfaction of insurance company execs. All insurance rates go up when the market is down.

And what is the number for % of doctors/% of suits? Something like 3-4% of the doctors involved in 80+% of the malpractice suits? A little real professional oversight and weeding out of bad doctors would go a long way to protect the public AND other doctors. And I thing the lawyers need to clean their house too. Get rid of the ambulance chasers.

All the tort reform BS is just the attempt to pump up the bots to scream for it when what it does is take away rights. I do think the British system might be worth considering.