Why Link Medical Malpractice Reform With Healthcare Reform?
For the past few months, the one public policy that has been on every American’s mind is health care reform. It seems like everyone has their own, unique opinion on the state of our country’s health care system and how to best reform it, if reform is even necessary. If you even begin to do some research on the subject, though, you find that there are a lot of red herrings in the health care debate, and it is very easy to be swayed by biased information that serves a particular interest group. Take, for instance, the argument for litigation reform. Many doctors and insurance companies claim that the rising health care costs in America are caused by rampant medical malpractice claims by people who want to “get rich quick” off of the medical system, and by the subsequent need for doctors to perform “defensive medicine”, wherein they perform unnecessary tests to cover themselves in case their patient decides to sue them for negligence. If we were to believe the people who support caps on a
