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Medical malpractice reform savings would be small, report says -- latimes.com
Alright Republicans, Plan A turned out to be total shit. Medical Malpractice is seemingly going to solve nothing. (Just like I said a couple weeks ago).
So what's Plan B?
Reporting from Washington - Medical malpractice reform is unlikely to cut healthcare spending significantly, the Congressional Budget Office reported Friday.
Enacting a cap on pain-and-suffering and punitive damages, changing liability laws and tightening the statute of limitations on malpractice claims would lower total healthcare spending by about one-half of 1% each year -- $11 billion at the current level -- according to an estimate by the nonpartisan agency
On Sunday, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) blasted Democrats for blocking attempts to reform malpractice laws. "Almost everybody agrees that we can save between $100 billion and $200 billion if we had effective medical malpractice reform," he said
This is the first Congressional Budget Office report to put a price tag on so-called defensive medicine, procedures and tests that stave off the threat of lawsuits but may not improve patient health. The agency found that reducing those measures through malpractice reform would lower healthcare spending by three-tenths of 1%.
Alright Republicans, Plan A turned out to be total shit. Medical Malpractice is seemingly going to solve nothing. (Just like I said a couple weeks ago).
So what's Plan B?