New Jersey keeps feeding the plaintiff lawyers. “And of course whenever this topic comes up here, someone always trots out the red-herring study showing that plaintiff-bar parasitism only increases the cost of health insurance by one or two percent. The real costs are indirect, as providers overprescribe diagnostics and procedures designed more to insulate themselves from malpractice awards than from improving outcomes for patients, and decline to provide certain services at all.”
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It’s not all bad. I got rich performing untold numbers of expensive imaging tests that were motivated by fear of lawsuits. Too bad though for the patients who had no idea that they were being put through procedures that had little chance of benefitting them.
The article is right on target except for one thing – the doctors of New Jersey were assessed 75 dollars to put into this slush fund, as were attornies, who are presently suing the state to get out of the fee. The taxpayers didn’t pay a dime. Also, over 35% of the money did NOT go to doctors, but to fund hospital charity care. Great solution, huh?
How silly of me to think that peer-reviewed studies are better sources of information than uninformed opinion.
Anon 11:22 sounds like CJD, but could also be Elliott just trying to be anonymous.
“How silly of me to think that peer-reviewed studies are better sources of information than uninformed opinion.”
You’re not silly; you’re absolutely despicable.
“Anon 11:22 sounds like CJD, but could also be Elliott just trying to be anonymous.”
It’s CJD. He’s disgraced himself by posting innumerable factless, pro-ambulancer-chaser fantasies so now he’s afraid to post under his old pseudonym since it has become such a laughing stock.
“I got rich performing untold numbers of expensive imaging tests that were motivated by fear of lawsuits.”
Hey CJD do you know about the Stark Law?
And did you know that doctors bill only for consultation and procedures in the hospital and interpretation of studies with hospitalized patients? The hospital gets the money(if they get paid) for all those tests you’re talking about.
Are you trying to mislead the laymen who read this blog? You don’t have credibility with the physicians here for sure.
Does the C in CJD stand for crooked or for convoluted?
CJD = Cares Just (about)Dough
This is my first post on this one, and I do still sign most of them.
I think it’s funny when an anonymouse calls out someone else for not posting their name.
I also think it’s funny how obsessed you guys are with me. Just think how much you’d know if you spent half the time you spend worrying about me into improving your skills.
CJD
Oh, I see. It’s us who are obsessed with you. Shouldn’t you be out there chasing some ambulances instead of hanging around this blog making a fool of yourself 24/7?
“I also think it’s funny how obsessed you guys are with me”
We’re not obsessed with you. It’s just that you happen to be the Sodomite on our “block” representing your malignant profession, that has ruined so many of our specialties, so you’re an easy target.
“Too bad though for the patients who had no idea that they were being put through procedures that had little chance of benefitting them.”
Hey CJD, you or your clone also said 2 weeks ago, “If you’re telling me CT’s or ultrasound don’t help diagnose appendicitis, you’re full of crap.”
It sounds like, you don’t know what you’re talking about on any given day.
I have no idea what you’re talking about there, last anonymouse. I think you may be so desperate for attention that you’re putting words in my mouth just so I’ll respond and give you the validation you so desperately crave.
Wish granted for today.
CJD
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