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To: DoodleDawg
Something like 26 or 27 states have tort reform. Can you point to anything that indicates health care premiums in those states have gone down, or increased at a slower rate than non-tort reform states?

In Texas, the primary result has been to improve access to health care, across the state:

Ten Years of Tort Reform in Texas: A Review There is some dispute about that. But there is no dispute that it lowered malpractice insurance premiums.

In a competitive marketplace, lowered costs results in lower prices.

34 posted on 03/27/2015 6:16:31 PM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: justlurking
There is some dispute about that. But there is no dispute that it lowered malpractice insurance premiums.

There is no doubt that tort reform lowers malpractice insurance premiums. But I asked for evidence that it resulted in lower medical insurance premiums, and your article did not mention that happening and I've never been able to find any studies that showed that tort reform did in any state it was enacted.

In a competitive marketplace, lowered costs results in lower prices.

Or higher profits. And that seems to be the case where lower malpractice premiums are concerned.

61 posted on 03/28/2015 3:31:21 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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