Well, like, duuuuhh! People file lawsuits over bad outcomes, regardless of whether there is actual malpractice. The ONLY reason for this is that people are attempting to access money to pay for the subsequent care that is necessary. It would not happen if everyone were guaranteed health care as a citizenship right.
Don't believe that? How about French general practitioners paying $160/year for malpractice insurance, and specialists paying $650? French patients rarely sue over bad outcomes because any extra necessary care is theirs as a right.
http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/high-quality-care-doesnt-mean-fewer-lawsuitsA new study published on March 31 in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the litigation risk of nursing homes is not tied to their quality.
“We were trying to see if lower quality facilities had higher litigation risk than higher quality facilities,” said David Stevenson, an associate professor of health policy at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy and a co-author of the study.
“The Relationship between Quality of Care and Negligence Litigation in Nursing Homes” found that best-performing nursing homes are only slightly less likely to be sued than poor-performing ones.
According to the study, “nursing homes with the best deficiency records (10th percentile) had a 40 percent annual risk of being sued, as compared with a 47 percent risk among nursing homes with the worst deficiency records (90th percentile).”