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According to this study ...
In December 2009, Jackson Healthcare invited 138,686 physicians to participate in a confidential online survey in an effort to quantify the costs and impact of defensive medicine. Over 3,000 physicians spanning all states and medical specialties completed the survey, a 2.21 percent response rate.
The survey error range is at the 95% confidence level: +/-1.15 percent.
The following definition was cited in the survey:
“Defensive medicine is the practice of diagnostic or therapeutic measures conducted primarily not to ensure the health of the patient, but as a safeguard against possible malpractice liability. "
Fear of litigation has been cited as the driving force behind defensive medicine.
Defensive medicine is especially common in the United States of America,
with rates as high as 79% to 93%, particularly in emergency medicine, obstetrics, and other high-risk specialties.
Physicians estimate the cost of defensive medicine to be between 26 and 34 percent of total annual healthcare costs, according to a recent report by Jackson Healthcare.
PHYSICIAN STUDY: QUANTIFYING THE COST OF DEFENSIVE MEDICINE - Jackson Healthcare
So how much do these doctors think "defensive medicine" makes up the total health care costs of $3.5 trillion?
The increase represents a sharp uptick from 2017 spending, which the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) now estimates to have been a 4.6 percent climb to nearly $3.5 trillion.
U.S. healthcare spending to climb 5.3 percent in 2018: agency - Reuters
Based on the above figures of 26% of $3.5 trillion or nearly $1 trillion a year in wasted cost due to fear of
lawsuits.
So why didn't Obamacare consider this as a major cost contributor such as they did with tanning salons.
ACA taxes tanning salons 10% because tanning cause cancer.
Where was the same concern towards the legal profession's gross revenue of The legal services industry in the United States generated 256.66 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2013.
A 10% tax of $25.6 billion would provide a $5,000/year premium for the 5 million that need and want health insurance.
In December 2009, Jackson Healthcare invited 138,686 physicians to participate in a confidential online survey in an effort to quantify the costs and impact of defensive medicine. Over 3,000 physicians spanning all states and medical specialties completed the survey, a 2.21 percent response rate.
The survey error range is at the 95% confidence level: +/-1.15 percent.
The following definition was cited in the survey:
“Defensive medicine is the practice of diagnostic or therapeutic measures conducted primarily not to ensure the health of the patient, but as a safeguard against possible malpractice liability. "
Fear of litigation has been cited as the driving force behind defensive medicine.
Defensive medicine is especially common in the United States of America,
with rates as high as 79% to 93%, particularly in emergency medicine, obstetrics, and other high-risk specialties.
Physicians estimate the cost of defensive medicine to be between 26 and 34 percent of total annual healthcare costs, according to a recent report by Jackson Healthcare.
PHYSICIAN STUDY: QUANTIFYING THE COST OF DEFENSIVE MEDICINE - Jackson Healthcare
So how much do these doctors think "defensive medicine" makes up the total health care costs of $3.5 trillion?
The increase represents a sharp uptick from 2017 spending, which the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) now estimates to have been a 4.6 percent climb to nearly $3.5 trillion.
U.S. healthcare spending to climb 5.3 percent in 2018: agency - Reuters
Based on the above figures of 26% of $3.5 trillion or nearly $1 trillion a year in wasted cost due to fear of
lawsuits.
So why didn't Obamacare consider this as a major cost contributor such as they did with tanning salons.
ACA taxes tanning salons 10% because tanning cause cancer.
Where was the same concern towards the legal profession's gross revenue of The legal services industry in the United States generated 256.66 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2013.
A 10% tax of $25.6 billion would provide a $5,000/year premium for the 5 million that need and want health insurance.
