I've seen some real heated rhetoric tossed around DKos about doctors/malpractice issues... and decided to see this Kossack could help pull "the thorn from the lion's paw".
The notion struck me that 'single-payer' healthcare eliminates one item for which doctors get sued if medical errors are made.
That eliminated item is the cost of medical care for the victim of malpractice. Why? Because a single-payer healthcare system would pay for all the medical care of all citizens. Someone would not have to sue to get remedial medical care due to some medical error.
This still leaves lawyers with other actionable items for a lawsuit, but the addition of a disability pension system for victims of medical errors would go along way towards eliminating medical malpractice lawsuits if the victims did not have to wait for years on the legal system and would accept the disability pension instead.
What do you think?
--Lefty!!!