In a message dated 5/4/2006 6:19:29 AM Mountain Standard Time,
dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com writes:
> Malpractice insurance premiums account for about 2% of medical costs.
> Limiting those costs will make a difference of less than 1/2 of 1%. Big
> deal.
And that must be why more and more doctors are moving out of Illinois to
Wisconsin so that they can afford the insurance.
We probably should move this discussion to the ASS list.
Larry, I don't mean this personally, so please don't take it that way, but
I've always admired the adage, "Figures lie and liers figure".
Having studied statistics a bit in college, I know you can use them in may
different ways to support many different views.
Malpractice insurance probably is only 2% of total medical costs, when you
count insurance, hardware, drugs, hospitals, ambulances, firefighters and other
first responders, utilities, taxes, litgation, etc, etc, etc.
It is hard however , to believe the average doctor in America would give a
rat's patoot about anything that only cost him personally 2% of the revenue he
generated.
Yes, cutting these premiums would only save a small percentage of the
overall cost of having medical care in the US, but it would, I bet, cut the
doctors
charges portion quite a bit..or at least it could if they passed the savings
on to us.
Robert Houston
Texan in NM
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