[DoodleDawg]

By far the biggest item is that first one. I don't know the exact numbers but if you add every cost involved in our present out-of-control lawyering, it has to be a major fraction if not more than half of our medical costs.

You would be wrong in that. We have a $2.2 trillion health care industry in this country. And on an average year malpractice costs nationwide run about $7 billion, or one third of one percent. Something like half the states in the country enacted tort reform that caps malpractice awards, and there is zero evidence that it has led to lower healthcare rates in any of them.

[varmintman]

The costs of lawyering have to include the massive insurance policies which doctors have to have, and needless CYA tests which are now being required prior to operations, and numerous similar things. It’s very hard to get an absolute handle on.