The majority of Congress is comprised of lawyers. It should be no surprise they will not pass legislation, such as tort reform, that will hurt the earning power, and ultimately political donations, of other lawyers.
Return specialists MDs to the 1990 Medicare schedule of private service payment, and the financial malpractice premium problem for MDs essentially goes away. Fifty to 75% effective cuts were introduced without warning in Jan. of 1991. Medicare rationing behavior by private practitioners in the most affected specialties began then.
Secondarily, a return to 1990 rates of private reimbursements, the surgical specialist incentive to see Medicare patients takes a great leap forward.
Draconian cuts were made in 1991, the ‘break’ year, and have remained that low for 18 years with relatively small adjustments downward since then. The issue was covered in low circulation professional journals only, and NO public ripple ever appeared.
Combine that schedule change with some modest/moderate reduction in rewards through tort reform, and the problem goes away without playing into the entire populace draconian healthmanagement reform.
The agenda in healthmanagement reform is for other than practical solution...it is for govt./corporate takeover purposes only...the old Mussllini model with heavy Marxist overtones.
the GOP should be hitting this harder...
Ping for later reading...
TY Kaslin. Good source.
Charles Krauthammer says the same thing.