Reply #6: Bullshit. The problem is that doctors refuse to police themselves....

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... combined with idiotic investing strategies on the part of the (re)insurers.

Practically *no* frivolous lawsuits get anywhere, and there is no such thing as "runaway jury awards".

The biggest problem is that the medical industry has no functioning mechanism to prevent "mistake prone" doctors from, um, continuing to make mistakes, and steadfastly refuses to institute a robust system for that purpose.

Same idea as cops refusing to snitch on other cops, and teachers refusing testing that will show how stupid they are.

EDIT: Forgot a helpful link:

http://www.citizen.org/documents/MedMalBriefingBook08-09-04.pdf

There are a lot of others, including goverment studies, all to the effect that limiting a citizen's right to seek redress for harm is mean and idiotic. But this link might suffice for now.