re: #291 Renaissance_Man

It is a very, very tiny part. Doctor salaries, which would increase as a result of malpractice insurance, make up 8% of the healthcare budget. The actual amount of money that goes to the doctors and nurses that provide the healthcare is a small fraction of the health care pie. The vast majority goes to ‘administration’, medical device companies, drug companies, and so forth. Yet physicians come increasingly under fire to justify their salaries, validate their outcomes, and measure their performance in patient satisfaction.

That’s what ticks me off the most about the GOP’s completely mindless resistance to any and all reforms of the US healthcare system. It’s as if they think the US health care system is some kind of highly optimized thing that would be spoiled by any attempted reform

This is a proposition so stupid it would be insulting to attribute it to Republicans.