What Will Be Obvious After Tonite

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Originally Posted by Danzig

i think a big part of the health problem would be lawyers, and the litigious society in which we live. it's ridiculous what malpractice insurance costs--and there are too many people who treat an accident as a way to win the lottery. sue sue sue. and then who pays?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0712140821.htm

“It is commonly believed that waiting lists in other countries and malpractice litigation in the United States are major reasons why the United States spends so much more on health care than other countries. We found that they only explain a small part of the difference,” said Gerard Anderson, PhD, lead author of the study and a professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management.

The study authors reviewed health care spending data on 30 countries from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for the year 2003. U.S. citizens spent $5,267 per capita on health care. The country with the next highest per capita expenditure, Switzerland, spent $3,446 per capita. The median OECD country spent $2,193 per capita."