Krauthammers health care proposal:- Kill all the lawyers. (Eliminate malpractice lawsuits.)
- Eliminate any pooling of risk (e.g. through employers) and have everybody purchase health insurance on an individual basis.
That second item would hasten the end of insurance-provided health care since the sorting out of high and low risk people would result in unaffordable coverage - or none - for the former, followed by bankruptcy if you didn't get to age 65 (when Medicare kicks in). without serious incident.
posted by Quiddity at 8/07/2009 03:31:00 AM
Lawyer Norman Goldman, hosting for Ed Schultz radio show, said malpractice accounts for 2% of medical costs. So yea, makes sense to make malpractice lawyers the enemy. Don't blame insurance companies that used to be happy making 5 cents on a dollar, that now have shareholders demanding they make over 20 cents on a dollar.
