Our litigious society is definitely out of control. The graph should also show how many new attorneys there were during the same time frame and how many went into this kind of law.
Lawyers benefit the most from all these suits, fines, and penalties since they will be hired to appeal which could go on for years while padding their bank accounts significantly while the people who are on the ground doing the real work of healing people get the shaft.
On the other hand there are something like 500,000 serious medical mistakes made yearly. There must be a way to reduce this significantly through a process of quality control much like any assembly line which hospitals and clinics do resemble as they move people in and out shuffling them to the next area of care.
Then again there should be a way to wean the dead weight and hacks out of the profession so they don’t do more harm than they already have.
A complicated problem with no easy solutions unfortunately.
True, but something better left for private enterprise to sort out - not bureaucrats, monopolies, or associations enamored with protecting their own piece of the pie while regulating the thing almost out of reach for the average person with an average income and a family.