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Breaking economic principles down to a level so basic that they are meaningless.
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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Yet another middle ground that seems to elude all sides in this debate... why don't us Rs start demanding better policing of doctors? I don't have a problem with damage caps (and, in fact, I'm pretty much in favor of them across the board), but what's the point of any of this if we can't get the medical regulators (at the state level?) to start pulling licenses and taking names for the ones who are charged with more than a simple mistake?
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If there's a problem, it's that med mal claims don't do a good job of compensating the right people. Caps are a bad idea, IMHO -- when you hear about the injuries people suffer, no one in the right mind would accept even the uncapped damages to incur those injuries. But if the system does not whack the right defendants, then it's not doing much to create the right incentives.
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