AND to clarify for you!
Medicare claims are paid to health care providers...INCLUDING these wasted duplicate testing, etc. i.e. Defensive Medical practices...all out of fear of
lawsuits!
TAX the lawyers $300 billion a year in revenue 10% and use that to pay a $5,000 a year premium for each of the less than 5 million people that have pre-existing conditions or can't get health insurance! That way one of the major idiotic campaign issues i.e. "pre-existing conditions" is SOLVED courtesy of taxes!
TAXES paid by Lawyers that WILL decline as the cost of "defensive medical practices" decline!
If this $1 trillion a year in wasted defensive medicine is cut by 40% a year... That $400 billion won't be paid out by mostly Medicare or private insurance!
Thus Medicare and private insurance won't have to raise rates, cut services because THEIR operating costs have declined!
Declining operating costs means LOWER premiums under STATEs' laws.
Because most idiots don't understand that states regulate health insurance premiums based on the percent of claims paid by the companies if the % of
premiums drop 40% THEN premiums HAVE to by STATES' health insurance laws DROP !
That is the simple fact! Tax the lawyers... They reduce the stupid ass lawsuits that by the way 95% settled out of court by the insurance companies so
they minimize the costs and as a result more lawyers do more lawsuits, which is really irrelevant to the insurance companies as I said they just pass the
cost on to higher premiums!
CUT this cycle out! Tax the lawyers reducing their tax rate as the $1 trillion in wasted duplicate, testing,etc reduces.
That becomes the deterrence to stupid lawsuits like these:
The patient soon consulted an attorney and announced that he would sue the surgeon and hospital for $3 million. His legal theory: The doctor should have known that he was psychotic and therefore didn't have the capacity to give or withdraw consent.
Dr. Grenga should have attempted to reattach the hand no matter what he said.
"Passmore also sued the psychiatry group at the hospital, which settled before trial for an amount believed to be in the mid- six figures," Fitzpatrick said. Defending Dr. Grenga cost his insurer more than $70,000.
example 2.
"The patient developed a romantic interest in the surgeon and wrote him several suggestive love letters. When he rejected her advances, the patient filed a lawsuit claiming that her breasts now 'twitch' when she has sexual activity," said Fitzpatrick. "Her lawyer found an expert who said this must be the surgeon's fault.""The case went to trial. Her lawyer wanted to put on a demonstration to show how the breasts twitch, but the judge wouldn't allow it. The trial lasted five days before the judge finally threw it out."
example 3..
Psychic Judith Haimes had assisted several law enforcement agencies in the Northeast in finding bodies and solving crimes. She sued Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, saying that her severe reaction to the dye used in CT scans led to chronic and disabling headaches, which prevented her from going into the state of deep concentration necessary to read auras.
A jury took just 45 minutes to deliberate and awarded her $600,000 plus $386,000 in interest.
Medscape: Medscape Access
These and many others are examples of WASTED lawsuits, wasted time and rationale for physicians to practice "DEFENSIVE MEDICINE!"
So keeping with the theme of this thread that others seem to digress attempting to negate "trickle down" idiots bringing up stupid political characterizations
i.e. GOP want to keep the poor poor, rich richer... all the while these same idiots doing the totally ignorant mischaracterizations ignore LAWYERs that
have caused this WASTE of $1 Trillion a year all out of fear of dumb ass lawsuits like the above!
