Reply #34: Seriously? After all the proof in several states with tort reform

[Curmudgeoness]

where malpractice insurance prices continue to increase, why are you even considering that this will be the magic wand to bring health care costs down? It has not even registered a tiny blip on the radar of insurance costs when it has been instituted.

Most of the time, malpractice cases do not win in the first place. So all those jury awards you hear about are bullshit and all the problems with lawsuits are garbage. In the extremely rare case where someone will win a malpractice suit, the evidence is overwhelming that something horrid had happened. If it was your husband/wife who was killed by an incompetent doctor or a careless mistake, and you had four kids, why should there be a minimal cap on the amount someone can receive when the costs of the loss will be huge?

Maybe you should be advocating for the medical community to stop protecting incompetent practitioners instead. The protection of their own that they condone are most of the reasons for malpractice.