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Oct 5 10 6:24 AM
Some doctors do lots of tests if the patient's insurance will cover them. If the insurance has limits on tests or the patient doesn't have insurance they don't test. My mother is on Medicare and the doctors are always wanting to run tests because Medicare will pay for them. Sometimes she has the tests done ... sometimes she says no. Several years ago my mother had surgery on her hand and the doctor did some damage and had to operate again. She was unable to work for a long time. The doctor paid all the medical bills as well as her lost wages and she didn't file a lawsuit. Not everyone is like that ... many would have sued and made a lawyer more money. I have mixed feelings about tort reform. On the one had stopping outrageous lawsuits would be a good thing. On the other hand some mistakes should not have limits. There was a patient in Florida who needed to have one leg amputated. The doctor cut off the healthy leg. The patient ended up with no legs at all because the diseased leg still had to be amputated. Who gets to decide what the cost of that should be?Since juries of "we the people" are who decides what to award plaintiffs in jury trials we have no one to blame but ourselves for the outrageous awards that make headlines. I am surprised that many of those who want tort reform also say they want less government inteference. Seems a contradiction to want the government to interfere with getting compensated for negligence in a lawsuit but they don't want the government to interfere with the ability to get healthcare in the first place.There's no easy answer. The high cost of Malpractice insurance might explain part of the high costs for doctors ... that and the high cost of education. But the bigger problem is that health care is a multibillion dollar industry that continually is hungry for more profits. Businesses are in business to make money and healthcare is a very big business.
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