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Another big inefficiency is the margin of error allowed due to malpractice lawsuits. If a patient is at a 1 in a 10,000 risk for a problem, the Doctor will orde
by gitfan86 5y ago
Another big inefficiency is the margin of error allowed due to malpractice lawsuits. If a patient is at a 1 in a 10,000 risk for a problem, the Doctor will order a test to rule that problem out. Because if the Doctor doesn't order the test and the person ends up having the problem, the Doctor could be sued for malpractice. In other countries the Doctor would say this is very unlikely so I'm not going to run the test.
- atdrummond 5y agoI don’t buy this. If this were true, Texas would have much better health outcomes than most other states, as med mal payments are capped and basically nonexistent relative to other states given the low cap/incentive for lawyers to pursue. Instead of any kind of dramatic increase in patient results, this system instead protected truly terrible doctors like the murderer Dr. Christopher Duntsch.
- gitfan86 5y agoYou are actually proving my point. Incompetent doctors are incentivized to come to Texas because there is a low cap on malpractice. That makes healthcare worse. Also, the extra tests that are being run just to cover someone's liability in other states don't make outcomes better because they are overwhelmingly unnecessary. They just add extra cost to the medical system to avoid lawsuits outside of Texas.