You should reveal your bias. Are you a trial lawyer? Your comments indicate that you are sympathetic the trial lawyers.
You did not address my assertions. I asserted that medical malpractice should focus on physician costs, not general medical costs. I also asserted that medical tort reform is much larger than medical malpractice for physicians. Medical equipment manufacturers, hospitals, and drug companies are all targets of medical lawsuits.
There is ample reason to be concerned about our tort system. A number of industries have been driven out due to litigation madness. The small aircraft industry was driven out. It returned a decade later when a Republican Congress provided sensible tort limits.
If our tort system is so great, why do other countries not copy it? Other countries laugh at our jackpot justice system.
I would not call it a bias. I simply learned the truth from my legal field career. You are right, hospitals have to carry coverage also.
I suspect other countries lack our constitutional guarantees of access to a court and a jury, and our history of law and customs. Plus, the more developed countries have larger social safety nets. Much of our costs in tort are past and future medical costs. Countries with national health care have passed these costs on to the taxpayer. We think the guilty ought to cover it.
parsy, who is sympathetic with trial lawyers and the victims they represent