Reply #167: I can help with that.

[MedicalAdmin]

The main cost of malpractice suits is the cost of ongoing care for the patient with a bad outcome. (BTW - good point about the high risk subspecialization - of course part of the reason for that high risk is that the therapies they have decided to use have a high percentage of bad outcomes and (at least when compared to international statistics) are not necessarily the best first choices. For example, the number of C-sections and induced births in the US is WAY above the international norms for those proceedures and the outcomes are correspondingly worse - all too often the procedures in these cases are put in place for the convenience of the physician)Of course exemptions abound. --- sorry about that rant - apparently I need to get back on that ADD med)

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Back to malpractice. By shifting the main cost of ongoing medical care onto a single payer system where everyone is covered no matter what, those costs are no longer a factor in the malpractice insurance costs. Lower costs = lower premiums.

I looked into costs in Canada a few years ago including Malpractice insurance and it is about 10% of what we pay here for better coverage.