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Support for tort reform among doctors hits 92 percent

By: David Freddoso
Commentary Staff Writer
11/09/09 2:20 PM EST

Trial lawyers contend that medical malpractice just isn't a big deal, but doctors on the ground aren't buying it. A new survey of nearly 2,000 doctors, conducted by Jackson Healthcare Solutions, found that 92 percent of them want medical malpractice reform. Fully 85 percent of the doctors surveyed reported that the threat of malpractice litigation is hampering their ability to practice medicine properly.

The doctors in the survey supported a variety of solutions to the current health care payment system, with ideas from both the Left and the Right. For example, large numbers support the idea of ending coverage refusals based on pre-existing conditions. But 61 percent also want to let patients opt out of Medicare, a government program that underpays doctors so badly in some cases that many Medicare patients have trouble finding doctors who will see them.

And majority of the doctors surveyed -- 62 percent -- disagree with the American Medical Association's endorsement of President Obama's reform proposal.

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ladybug

Nov 9, 2009

Doctors and seniors, both being misrepresented by big lobbying organizations that put their own good ahead of the good of their constituents.

Wonder how we show them for what they are, self-interested lobbyists?

bob

Nov 10, 2009

Join the campaign to say NO to socialized medicine!

Send a personalized note to your members of Congress (or ALL members) and tell them to vote NO on Obamacare – before it’s too late!

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norrishall

Nov 10, 2009

American medical care is the most expensive care in the entire world.
Americans pay TWICE as much for health care as citizens for Japan, Germany, England, France, Canada, Spain, Italy, Australia, Singapore.
And these countries cover 94% of their citizens.
If you like paying $10,000 a day for a typical stay in a US hospital, say NO to Obama's health care reforms...and plan on going bankrupt when you lose your job, your insurance company cancels your health care, you decide to quit your job and become self employed, or you get a job with a company that doesn't offer health care.

Paddy

Nov 10, 2009

norrishall: How do you know that we pay more than double the cost of medical elsewhere? To get the total costs needed for an honest comparison, you must combine the self-paid (premiums) with the taxes paid and the government subsidies that are inevitably passed back to tax payers via tax increased to recover the budget deficits. That data is not readily available because the public policy of all nations with socialist or single payer health care is to hide or obfuscate the actual costs.

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Support for tort reform among doctors hits 92 percent

By: David Freddoso
Commentary Staff Writer
11/09/09 2:20 PM EST