"Of 1,376 doctors responding in late August, 65% opposed Congress’ reform plans; 45% said enactment would make them consider leaving their practice or take early retirement; and 67% expected fewer students to apply to medical schools.
Some 65% also felt seniors would end up with lower-quality care under a government plan; 71% didn’t think it possible for the government to cover 47 million more people and cut costs while also delivering better quality care; finally, 60% of physicians didn’t think that under a government plan, drug companies would have incentives to continue developing as many lifesaving new medicines."
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The Major Incurable Disease - Tort Terror
FREE CONGRESS FOUNDATION - Free Congress Foundation Commentaries ^ | October 21, 2009 | By Marion Edwyn Harrison, Esq.
Posted on October 21, 2009 2:15:35 PM PDT by Cindy
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Free Congress Foundation Commentary
The Major Incurable Disease – Tort Terror
By Marion Edwyn Harrison, Esq.
October 21, 2009
Unlike other countries, our Federal system and many of our State judicial systems encourage litigation against physicians and hospitals. The practice of medicine is almost unimaginatively sophisticated, as applicable knowledge continually becomes more complicated and more extensive.
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