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Assumption No. 1.
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You don't think Medical insurance rates are too high? Did you read that economist article about the price of insurance? Six figures for obstratricians. I really doubt that you would think that six figures for legal malpractice would be reasonable.
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Really? Isn't the person who pays higher healthcare premiums as much of a victim? How about hospitals? Why are doctors the only victims? Note that the people paying healthcare bills and the hospitals may well identify the doctors as the culprit.
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I never said the doctors were the only victims. Just one of the victims. I already pointed out that the costs were passed on to consumers. We have had hearings about this issue at the local party meetings, and everyone involved in hospitals, from the nurses to the hospital administrators blame litigation. The only people I have ever heard argue that malpractice claims in this country are not a problem are lawyers, or articles from left wing looneys, like Ralph and Noam, cited by RT.
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I love the "it must be so because they so its so element of this.
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Put words in my mouth so you can critisize it. I just said I was more inclined to believe the doctors. And when looking at the other factors it seems they are rights.
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And the doctors, who are the only ones who possible could commit medical malpractice, have to be trusted entirely? They couldn't have anything to do with malpractice costs?
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Sure they may be screwing up, but a lot of doctors aren't and they have to pay outlandish medical insurance premiums.
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Your forgot the victims of malpractice. After all, that is where most of the money goes. And isn't that who you want to penalize by capping recoveries?
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Eliminating punative damages won't punish them at all. And limiting economic damages to reasonable levels is not punishing them. It is just stopping jurys from running amok. You really want to help the vicitms - how about capping contingency fees at 10%.
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Tell me your proposal again, that will penalize the trial lawyers but not harm the victims of malpractice?
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How about MICRA instituted nationally?
