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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 688517" data-attributes="member: 9859"><p>Amid the obstructionists’ claims that health care reform is socialist or a means of speeding Grandma towards her deathbed, a large focus of the conservative position on health care reform has been that frivolous lawsuits drive up health care costs and require doctors to practice defensive medicine that’s costly and wasteful.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://www.massmed.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Advocacy_and_Policy&TEMPLATE=/center manager/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=23559" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #09427c">a study by the Massachusetts Medical Society</span></strong></a> that found that five out of six doctors said they ordered additional tests, procedures and referrals to protect themselves from lawsuits. “Defensive medicine” wastes more than $200 billion a year.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12baker.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12baker.html</a> </p><p>Health economists and independent legal experts who study the issue, say that malpractice liability costs are a small fraction of the spiraling costs of the U.S. health care system, and that the medical errors that malpractice liability tries to prevent <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12baker.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #09427c">are themselves a huge cost</span></strong></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>That's <strong>Dubya</strong>...We have been following their lead for the past decade. Where was all ruckus on spending back then ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 688517, member: 9859"] Amid the obstructionists’ claims that health care reform is socialist or a means of speeding Grandma towards her deathbed, a large focus of the conservative position on health care reform has been that frivolous lawsuits drive up health care costs and require doctors to practice defensive medicine that’s costly and wasteful. [URL="http://www.massmed.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Advocacy_and_Policy&TEMPLATE=/center manager/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=23559"][B][COLOR=#09427c]a study by the Massachusetts Medical Society[/COLOR][/B][/URL] that found that five out of six doctors said they ordered additional tests, procedures and referrals to protect themselves from lawsuits. “Defensive medicine” wastes more than $200 billion a year. [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12baker.html"][B][COLOR=#09427c][/COLOR][/B][/URL] Health economists and independent legal experts who study the issue, say that malpractice liability costs are a small fraction of the spiraling costs of the U.S. health care system, and that the medical errors that malpractice liability tries to prevent [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12baker.html"][B][COLOR=#09427c]are themselves a huge cost[/COLOR][/B][/URL] That's [B]Dubya[/B]...We have been following their lead for the past decade. Where was all ruckus on spending back then ? [/QUOTE]
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