Almost certainly, Given that the prices we pay doctors are mostly related to the high and increasing cost of malpractice insurance rates doctors have to pay. By the way we don't have a capitalist medical system in this country. We have a system in which half its time and money are spent ensuring that it has all the t's crossed and i's dotted in order to keep regulators and lawyers at bay and that doesn't always work simply because human beings - and doctors are human beings - aren't perfect.