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Re:New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity by ruph123 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:49AM (#26736893)
> But cost of healthcare is astronomical in part because malpractice insurance is expensive, because too many people abuse it.

You pulled the “trigger a European” card. This is not why the US healthcare is astronomically high. The reason is: practically no meaningful regulation and thus free roaming oligopolies of a few providers with insane billing practices (which hospitals are covered, etc.). And much more...

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Re:New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity by KptMarchewa on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:13AM (#26737760)
And some of the meaningful regulation drastically increases costs. Mostly for good reasons.
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Re:New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity by ruph123 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:31AM (#26737904)
Why would that be? In countries with universal health care (which would be pretty high up on the regulation scale) costs for medical procedures are significantly lower. [0] Americans have to understand that they are drastically overpaying for almost everything medical including drugs. There is no way around it.

[0]: https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2012/03/comparing-health-ca...

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Re:New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity by KptMarchewa on Thursday April 08, 2021 @07:59PM (#26745258)
Oh yes, but it's pretty different when you're regulating interactions between complex network of private entities, and just telling state health fun to cover some procedure.
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