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Tort Reform Doesn't Actually Save Much Money by David Atkins

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iossarian9/22/2014 6:33:51 am PDT

re: #2 1Peter G1

There’s a reason no country with a good universal health care system uses the court system to try and regulate improper behavior in health care.

Not sure what this means - you can take healthcare bodies to court in other countries too if they screw up.

The point of the article is that the costs associated with legal proceedings of this type are small in the US (2-3% of total) compared with the overhead of the insurance system, which is generally reckoned to be somewhere between 20 and 30% of the total.