New Jersey’s “solution”: a $75/year tax on doctors and lawyers to subsidize malpractice insurance for the highest-risk professionals. Attorneys are unhappy, but the courts aren’t intervening. (“Industry Insider: Jersey’s top court won’t hear lawyers group’s $75 fee appeal”, Star-Ledger, Nov. 10 (via Kevin MD)).
Punting the medical-malpractice problem
New Jersey’s “solution”: a $75/year tax on doctors and lawyers to subsidize malpractice insurance for the highest-risk professionals. Attorneys are unhappy, but the courts aren’t intervening. (“Industry Insider: Jersey’s top court won’t hear lawyers group’s $75 fee appeal”, Star-Ledger, Nov. 10 (via Kevin MD)).
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This is a fairly easy and somwhat useful solution, actually… the doctors wre already paying, so it at last brings in more people who are at fault for the current mess.
The problem is that so many jury decisions are loony-toons wrong, and monetary awards are off the wall. How this tax on professionals help?
A side effect of insurance is the natural desire to get your fair share
and more for the premiums.
There sure would be fewer MRI’s if they were not covered by insurance.