Now where there should have been a 10% tax LIKE THERE is in Obamacare on tanning salons is lawyers!
Why don't people pay attention to what their doctors are telling us?
In October 2009, Jackson Healthcare conducted a national survey of physicians to qualify their attitudes regarding the practice of medicine in light of the healthcare reform environment. In their open-ended responses, defensive medicine was an issue consistently offered by physicians as the primary problem driving healthcare costs. Survey participants reported that medically unnecessary diagnostic and treatment services were being ordered in an effort to avoid lawsuits.
Jackson Healthcare believed this issue merited further exploration and quantification. Our secondary research found no publicly reported research that quantified the extent and economic impact of defensive medical practices among U.S. physicians.
In December 2009, Jackson Healthcare polled physicians again to quantify the scope and impact of defensive medicine practices. Jackson believed physicians were the most reliable source to quantify unnecessary medical activities, since physicians drive all healthcare expenses through their orders. Survey participants estimated that 34 percent of overall healthcare costs is attributable to defensive medicine.
Nine out of 10 physicians reported practicing defensive medicine. In Texas, where tort reform legislation was passed in 2001, physicians reported defensive medicine practices no less than the overall participant average.
Physician Study: Quantifying the Cost of Defensive Medicine
1) It causes physicians as the above study reports to be so fearful of doing the wrong thing they waste many times billions of dollars.
Now who pays those billions? Medicare/your employers' health insurance or your private insurance.
And again... why should they care? They simply jack the premiums up!
2) These wasteful claims costing per the above anywhere from $500 to $800 billion a year can be reduced if people like you
weren't A) wanting the "lottery" B) protecting lawyers... geez something I can't figure out why people like you protect them.
Lawyers earned a median salary of $114,970 in 2014, according to the BLS. The best-paid lawyers earned more than $187,199, while the lowest-paid made less than $55,400.
How Much Can a Lawyer Expect to Get Paid?
So what would $11,000 deducted from the median salary in Federal taxes of the 1,300,705 lawyers?
https://www.americanbar.org/content...yer-demographics-tables-2015.authcheckdam.pdf