Malpractice caps on malpractice premiums

Anon, You’re scaring the children…

They sue their doctors typically for two reasons – one, to pay medical bills (which is the bulk of most awards). Two, because their providers won’t tell them what happened and generally ignore them so they want an answer.

But mostly #1. That’s the tradeoff for not having universal healthcare.

So physicians are like Ipods? No difference in quality from one to the next?

If that’s the case, let’s just make them all govt. employees, pay them a hell of a lot less, and do away with all of this fractured healthcare mess.

Again, Kevin, do you believe that the difference in those claimed average premiums is solely due to the difference in tort awards?

I take it you can tell us then how many neurosurgeons there are in the two locales? What companies were surveyed to determine these numbers? How much has been paid out per surgeon, etc.?

Or are you simply trying to make a point with statistics you have a meager understanding of, like most lobbyists? Do you prescribe drugs based on that little info from drug reps?

So Criminal you would just ramp up the number of medical students by lowering admission standards to fix the access to care problem. Well assuming all of these new docs find residencies since those are frozen. Four years plus 5 of internship and residency. Hey you will have in fixed in 9 years! Brilliant!

If that’s the case, let’s just make them all govt. employees, pay them a hell of a lot less, and do away with all of this fractured healthcare mess.

Great, we will work 9-4 all holidays off and no call, since I’m a govt. employee. Instead of seeing 90-100 patients a day I will see 20. Ten before and ten after my 2 hour lunch break. That will completely solve the access to care problem, make physicians much much less efficient than they are today. Brilliant! Just don’t get sick after hours.

Anon 1:37

Since you have asked… Here is what I would do. Remove the CME or any other medical group from the process of certifying medical schools, decouple medical schools from large research institutions and allow for-profit medical schools. I would increase the funding for residency programs dramatically. I would shift the MDs out of the primary care business into specialties and increase the training of NPs and PAs such that they could serve as PCPs. Finally, I would start the process of either having nationalized or regionalized health care with the latter being akin to the fire or police department. Providers would either be local, state or federal employees. The pay might be less than what they are making now but gone would be the running a small business headache, liability headache and working hellacious hours headache. Along with this, I would have either the local, state of federal body pick up the total cost of the education tab for medical students in the same manner as they do with fire fighters or police officers.

Can you say VA. Of course I think americans will be a little surprisd by their new healthcare.

“So physicians are like Ipods? No difference in quality from one to the next?

If that’s the case, let’s just make them all govt. employees, pay them a hell of a lot less, and do away with all of this fractured healthcare mess.”

We already have that system in place. It’s called Medicare.

“So physicians are like Ipods? No difference in quality from one to the next?

If that’s the case, let’s just make them all govt. employees, pay them a hell of a lot less, and do away with all of this fractured healthcare mess.”

We already have that system in place. It’s called Medicare.

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