[bonesmccoy]

It already happened in Nevada.

There were economic bust-outs that hit California's healthcare system for over three billion dollars in drained funds (sucked out the system under Gray Davis' watch).

Physicians fled to Nevada in the late 1990's.

Then, Nevada had malpractice insurance rates skyrocket. You can read the President's comments on this matter at the White House website.

[FITZ]

I know here we have a problem with very high rates of malpractice claims and often by the non-paying patients who show up in an emergency room, get a doctor who was on-call, and they're the first to sue.

Maybe they should change the way malpractice insurance is done completely ---let a patient going to surgery take out insurance --like people can do before getting a flight so that they'd be covered in the event of accidents. The rates could be higher if they choose doctors or hospitals which have many valid claims against them.

Patients then could only claim if they purchased the insurance.