"Fucking ignorant" is picking a couple of cases portrayed by the media and turning them somehow into the norm.
You can use all the expletives in the world, but it doesn't change the fact that malpractice insurance is actually an incredibly minor portion of the costs associated with healthcare.
http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/no8primer.pdf
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"The direct costs of malpractice litigation include payments made on claims (from which
plaintiff’s attorney fees and costs are taken), legal costs of defending claims and costs of underwriting
and administering liability insurance. A recent estimate suggests that claims costs amounted
to $4.4 billion in 2001, legal defense costs amounted to $1.4 billion and insurance administration
amounted to $700 million. Thus, total direct costs were probably about $6.5 billion in 2001, or 0.46
percent of total health care spending"
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Medical Malpractice Reform and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance - RWJF
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Tort reform has not led to health care cost savings for consumers. Given the strength of this finding, the authors assert legislators need to reexamine whether tort reform offers consumers any benefits.
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