I know, I know, this has been around...and it maybe made up ...but IT is still VALID!

[12icer]

How many times do you idiots have to be told!
A) Defensive Medicine costs $1 trillion a year.
B) It is the wasted duplicate tests so doctors can prevent being frivolously sued and spending nearly 25% of their time defending themselves.
C) Tax lawyers like ACA taxed tanning salons 10% and watch the $1 trillion in defensive medicine drop.
D) Declining medical claim payments means declining premiums!
E) States' insurance regulators will require lower premiums if less money going out in claims.

Litigation protects patients from a healthcare industry built around obscene profits

Right... that's what I figured people like you ignorantly THINK!!!
You look on at as a Lottery! Get sick. Sue the doctor. Settle out of court!
Right... all the while the insurance companies simply raise the premiums. They don't care.
BUT YOU should! THINK about what you said.
YOU want all doctors to be seconded guessed. To double, triple health care costs. Makes NO sense!

I do not envy those who receive big medical settlements

It means they had to go through a lot of suffering and have lasting damage

I prefer to be healthy

NO it doesn't as 1/3rd of the lawsuits are frivolous!

Plaintiff attorneys and other self-proclaimed protectors of the public assert that frivolous lawsuits are the exception, rarely result in awards, and point to the prevalence of medical errors and/or miscreant insurance companies as the cause of high medical malpractice insurance premiums.
In their study, the authors determine that in over 33 percent of the claims, there was no medical error, and readily point out in most of these, the claimant did not receive any compensation, either in the form of a settlement or court judgment. According to the authors' findings, defense costs represent less than 20 percent of the total direct expenditures associated with medical malpractice.

Meritless cases must be investigated and defended resulting in the outlay of what is known as allocated loss adjustment expenses (ALAE).
According to information from the Physicians Insurers Association of America (PIAA), an organization consisting of many of the physician-owned liability insurers, of the more than 10,000 claims closed in 2005, only 24 percent of these cases had an indemnity payment.
Yet, the ALAE paid for those claims totaled more than $172 million, averaging almost $21,000 in expenses per meritless claim.

Medical Malpractice: The High Cost of Meritless Claims | Expert Commentary | IRMI.com

No...... 1/3 of cases are not frivolous

Lawsuits keep the medical profession honest. Otherwise, they would just play the odds and if you lose...... cost of doing business

Guess how many lawsuits are filed in a socialist country against doctors?
I guess shitty doctors will like socialism since it is quantity and quality is for the ruling class.

 

[sparky]

Litigation protects patients from a healthcare industry built around obscene profits

which is why the cyclical relationship exists betwixt the two

I prefer to be healthy

viatmins dude......

NO it doesn't as 1/3rd of the lawsuits are frivolous!

so are 1/2 the RX, but what do we expect of capitalist medice, which offers only capitalist remedies?

~S~

 

[Lesh]

Newsflash...when you post something that "may be made up" it is by definition...NOT valid

Then I guess you want the mueller investigation to stop because it is invalid and you want to remove a lot of your posts too for the same reason. It is kinda like the rehash of emoluments from the first in the Constitution as they relate to Trump.

There is NOTHING "invalid" about the Mueller investigation....you just don't like it.

As far as emoluments...I highly doubt it to be impeachable but more importantly...foreign payments to a President need to be approved by Congress. That means that investigations need to be done.

 

[The Original Tree]

Socialism destroys wealth. Socialism destroys industry and the work ethic. Socialism destroys upward mobility.

Once all of that is destroyed, people will go hungry, and then all that is left to do is go to war against other nations because your people are starving and the only industry you have is the military industrial complex.

The only other thing a nation will do is send it's poor people to a more prosperous nation and have them invade it because they can no longer support them in their socialist paradise.

When you confiscate wealth, you destroy it. If you destroy a Nation's border, you have destroyed that nation.

 

[g5000]

How many times do you idiots have to be told!
A) Defensive Medicine costs $1 trillion a year.

Utter and complete horseshit. Stop parroting this patently ridiculous lie, asshole.

Defensive Medicine Adds $45 Billion to the Cost of Healthcare

Defensive medicine costs less money than physicians think

$45 billion. Not a trillion. Retard.

 

[healthmyths]

How many times do you idiots have to be told!
A) Defensive Medicine costs $1 trillion a year.

Utter and complete horseshit. Stop parroting this patently ridiculous lie, asshole.

Defensive Medicine Adds $45 Billion to the Cost of Healthcare

Defensive medicine costs less money than physicians think

$45 billion. Not a trillion. Retard.

AND YOU idiot you didn't read the article did you or else you'd see these POINTS DUMMY!!!
Mello and colleagues broke down the costs of malpractice this way:

• Indemnity payments: $5.72 billion, of which $3.15 billion represents payment for economic damages, $2.4 billion for noneconomic damages, and $0.17 billion for punitive damages.
• Administrative expenses: $4.13 billion, which includes $1.09 billion in fees to defense attorneys and $3.04 billion in overhead expenses. (Estimated fees to plaintiffs' attorneys were $2 billion, but that amount is included in indemnity payments.)
• Defensive medicine costs: $45.59 billion, of which $38.79 billion was estimated as the costs of hospital services and $6.80 billion as physician services.

Malpractice Adds Less than 3 Percent to Healthcare Tab

YOU don't seem to comprehend the DIFFERENCE do you?
The above $45 billion was actually associated with legal fees, administrative fees, etc. HAD NOTHING to do with the practice of ordering duplicate tests. Referring to specialists!
All the things THESE doctors attest to doing so THEY won't have to pay the ADMINISTRATIVE,ETC... costs of $45 Billion!

AGAIN read CLOSER because you MISSED THE POINT entirely!

JUST to repeat and shout! DEFENSIVE MEDICINE IS ORDERING DUPLICATE TESTS,ETC. SO AS NOT TO BE
SUED FOR NOT HAVING 2ND OPINIONS,ETC.! HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL COSTS.
HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH DUPLICATE TESTS, SPECIALISTS REFERRALS, ETC.
READ CLOSER NEXT TIME!
Gallup and Jackson Healthcare in 2010 found 73% and 92% of private sector physicians, respectively, admitted practicing defensive medicine,
which was high compared to 48% of government physicians.
Defensive Medicine: A Bane to Healthcare