[DoctorMichael]

.......AND, they pay half (or more) of that $300K in malpractice insurance because of the trial lawyers.

[Desparado]

The big dark secret is that it is all just a wealth shifting scheme. The govt forces us to pay taxes, and then it doles the money (Billions of dollars) out to the Healthcare industry. The poor stupid people in the middle are just being used as pawns. They are the conveyer belt that is used to move the money from the tax revenues to the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industries. They don't care because they are not paying for it. It's easy to go to the Doctor and have thousands of dollars of useless testing done when you are not going to have to pay for it.