According to the history of health care reform addressed in the text, should we expect Obamacare to actually limit health care costs? How does medical malpractice and tort reform relate to this?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
An ideal response will:
1. Explain that health care reform, and thereby Obamacare, largely fails to contain the nation's burgeoning health care costs.
2. Discuss that lawsuits against physicians, hospitals, and insurers are a major cause of increased health care costs. Physicians must pay exorbitant fees for malpractice insurance. More importantly, physicians are prompted by fear of lawsuits to order numerous tests and procedures not necessary for good medical practice.
3. Obamacare and Congress failed to include any provision for the reform of medical malpractice litigation. Tort reform would pay for the actual lifetime cost of medical errors but place a cap on "pain and suffering" damages.
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