Doctors dont lie

Lawsuits are not limiting access to health care. The U.S. General Accounting Office found, after an extensive investigation, that doctors’ groups have misled, fabricated evidence, or, at the very least, wildly overstated their case about how malpractice insurance problems have limited access to health care. The only health care access problems that GAO could confirm were isolated and the result of factors having nothing at all to do with the legal system.
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Implications of Rising Premiums on Access to Health Care
Center for Justice & Democracy letter to the American Medical Association regarding the GAO study above.


Medical malpractice costs are a tiny percentage of overall health care expenditures. Medical malpractice insurance and claims costs represent, at most, only 2 percent of overall health care spending in this country, according to both the Congressional Budget Office and the General Accounting Office.
President Uses Dubious Statistics on Costs of Malpractice Lawsuits

Think Malpractice is Driving Up Health Care Costs? Think Again

Ask your doctor about his/her malpractice insurance.

Ask your doctor about his/her malpractice insurance. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

remind me how the healthcare law has anything to do with malpractice ins ...

if anything, the influx of new patients will help offset that cost ... malpractice ins doesnt go up because a Dr sees more paitents

Influx of new patients? So the health care law is going to make more people sick? You may be right, I want to puke when I think about it.

Influx of new patients? So the health care law is going to make more people sick? You may be right, I want to puke when I think about it. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

ok, you dont understand.

anyone else?

A healthier population is a more productive population.
Our curren system is very expensive. I have great insurance (EXPENSIVE) and even basic services are costly. I'm very healthy and it's still a burden. The doctors are usually more interested in what they're having for lunch than what ails me.

Reform IS needed in a very dire way. The AHCA was a good thing in that it sparked discussion and debate. However, I think that the politics involved have polarized people to the point that health care REFORM has taken a back seat to partisanship. Sad
The bill attempts to remedy but falls short in the support dept.
In concept, both parties like parts of the bill and the ideas within.
The problem is that instead of bipartisan negotiation to come to a workable resolution that could make lives better... We have gridlock. Sucks.

It would be nice to have reasonable representatives umm....
Representing the reasonable.

A healthier population is a more productive population.
Our curren system is very expensive. I have great insurance (EXPENSIVE) and even basic services are costly. I'm very healthy and it's still a burden. The doctors are usually more interested in what they're having for lunch than what ails me.

Reform IS needed in a very dire way. The AHCA was a good thing in that it sparked discussion and debate. However, I think that the politics involved have polarized people to the point that health care REFORM has taken a back seat to partisanship. Sad
The bill attempts to remedy but falls short in the support dept.
In concept, both parties like parts of the bill and the ideas within.
The problem is that instead of bipartisan negotiation to come to a workable resolution that could make lives better... We have gridlock. Sucks.

It would be nice to have reasonable representatives umm....
Representing the reasonable. Originally Posted by UB9IB6

Excellent analysis!

Ask your doctor about his/her malpractice insurance. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Ask your doctor. Don't look at anything as unbiased as his take on it.

Influx of new patients? So the health care law is going to make more people sick? You may be right, I want to puke when I think about it. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Calm down. Take a deep breath. Take some medication. Fuck one of your "welfare breeder moms".
More people with health care statistically means more patients.

ok, you dont understand.

anyone else? Originally Posted by CJ7

Go easy. He'll probably be dead soon.

Ask your doctor. Don't look at anything as unbiased as his take on it.


Ouch! Truthy ,honestly funny. +1

Calm down. Take a deep breath. Take some medication. Fuck one of your "welfare breeder moms".

They are the most fun kind of bred mothers
I say get bang for your buck

More people with health care statistically means more patients.

Instead if being in the ER costing 3 k per visit
They could save tax providers like 2800 bucks by receiving routine healthcare.
If we are paying for deadbeats anyway... At
Least be pragmatic about it.

Go easy. He'll probably be dead soon. Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

Unkindly said.

I post proof positive that Drs lie to influence the system and COG wants me to ASK MY DOCTOR.


if you dont think about that it makes perfect sense.

So you don't trust your doctor, CBJ7? Too bad.

Don't mind Munchie. As a child he was breastfed on falsies. Hasn't been right since.

So you don't trust your doctor, CBJ7? Too bad.

Don't mind Munchie. As a child he was breastfed on falsies. Hasn't been right since. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

but I repeat myself .......


what question do you want me to ask my doctor?

Just ask him/her how Obamacare will affect their practice.

Just ask him/her how Obamacare will affect their practice. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

I already know


obama care wont MAKE my Dr accept medicade if she already doesnt

Obamacare wont increase my Drs overhead or malpractice insurance costs

obamacre wont make my Dr quit practicing medicine

obamacare will increase my Drs patient flow because more patients will have insurance and can afford to see my Dr ...


I dont think I'll ask my Dr a sophomoric question and insult my Dr's intelligence or mine

CJ7, would you care to place a small wager on that bit about "Obabcare won't increase my Drs overhead"? Recall that this is EXACTLY what Medicare/Medicaid tried to do to Dr Journeay, my father's primary care physician.