If you want to know why the costs of healthcare have gone out of sight, you can again look at the insanity of civil lawsuits. "At $1.55 trillion in 2002," write the Lodmell brothers, "the annual cost of healthcare in America leaped by 9.3% to about $5,400 per man, woman and child. That’s 14.9% of the U.S. economy." By 1999, 40% of physicians had been sued and 25% of them had been sued more than once.
By 2002, the figure had climbed to 58%! By then, the average jury award for medical malpractice had tripled to $3.5 million–three times the average jury award for all torts combined! Little wonder insurance companies elected to stop insuring physicians or required premiums so high the practice of medicine was no longer possible. And in some parts of the nation people with real health problems often found they were unable to find a doctor to treat them.
Will Shakespeare had it right when he said "First we kill the Lawyers"
One third of all humans who practice law on earth, practice it in the United States of America.
One only need remember, that lawyers do not create any wealth. In America, they are primarily a destructive force. Nobody calls a lawyer when things are going just fine. (The odd M&A specialist excepted.) Lawyers get their greatest benefits from problems and disasters. It is often in their interest to keep two parties quarreling for as long and lucratively as possible. Misery, discord and pain keep the fees flowing, after all.