Implement Tort Reform. When it costs doctors an average of $250,000 for malpractice insurance, something is wrong. This is driving a lot of doctors away from medicine and out of small towns that cannot generate this kind of medical ante. People's legal rights need to be protected, but not to the extent that it eliminates health care in some areas altogether.
That is the only sensible statement I see there: To me as European it seems the economic compensations in the US for assumed/felt/real damage done to body(parts) is hilarious and way out of context.
When I can sue for Milliions because I burnt myself drinking hot coffee *just because it was not advertised coffe is hot* (IIRC this happened in RL), then something is wrong.
Here in (Napeolonic code, UK is like US in this respect) Europe (not saying this is fair either, just the other side of the coin), if I, e.g. lose a leg, I get 25.000 Euros (30.000$; complete list of indemnizations here - in Spanish -
http://www.indemnizacionaccidente.es/, the highest with 144.000 Euros is for losing a son...), same for an eye, for burning my toung on on hot coffe: Well, this would be laughed at and not even permitted (..."your problem if you drink hot coffee and burn yourself. *Everybody* knows coffe is hot"...)...
Frankly, this is sensible and the way it should be IMHO (teach your children and explain to them coffe is made of boiling water...), but the advocates and free market ruined this aspect of the US society, and as the insurance companies and doctors have to comply and be preprared to face such cost the system is so inflexible and costly.
As for the rest of the mentioned article, big BS, this one is the worst straightforward lie and can be proved wrong easily (just scroll up this thread):
Every nation that has gone the route of socialized medicine has made access, cost and quality of care worse.
Here in Spain, access, cost and quality beat US anytime for my class of people, the middle class that just is able to make ends meet (not talking Mr. Rockefeller treatment).
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