Reply #10: Exactly!

[liberalhistorian]

It's the fucking INSURANCE companies that are the real problem. Rates have not gone down even in many states that have enacted so-called "malpractice reform", capped limits on awards, etc., and many doctors are starting to see this. Insurance companies have been badly mismanaged during the past decade,(bad investments, etc.) and are having to recoup their losses, losses which have nothing whatsoever to do with malpractice cases.

Of course, this wouldn't be much of a change for them since they already won't treat an awful lot of people who need care but who are uninsured or don't have any money. And they totally ignore the REAL crisis, which is millions of Americans who have no insurance and no access to care, or who are forced to file bankruptcy and/or lose what little assets they have due to medical bills, the over 18,000 who die every year as a direct result of no insurance, etc., etc., etc. You'd think they'd realize that if we had a system to take care of such people, that that would mean the docs would actually get even MORE money than they already do and they should be scrambling to help enact reform. That's what finally got Medicare and Medicaid passed after decades of resistance from doctors, they finally realized that it meant they'd actually get a lot more money.