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Originally Posted by creekster
SO let's probe your examples, and putting aside the point I made about defensive non-carcinogenic tests such as blood apnels for the moment. To what do you attribnute the difference in approahces between indiana and Detroit (and apologies if this was explained somewhere else and I msised it)?
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I applaud the insurance lobby for having framed this issue so well that we are arguing about which needless procedures are making premiums go up. The truth is that med-mal payouts have been more or less static for years and yet the premiums continue to rise. The reason for this is that insurance carriers make most of their money from investment income and this is cycle.
Dr's premiums over the last 30 years have risen and fallen along with the economy, not in relationship to payouts. But again, bravo to the insurance lobby for successfully blaming the plaintiffs bar. You would think we could defend ourselves a little better.