Tort reform only helps a little. In fact several US states have already implemented major tort reform and their healthcare costs aren't significantly lower. Doctors still tend to practice defensive medicine and err on the side of doing too much rather than too little.

The current bottleneck in producing more physicians isn't medical schools but rather funded residency program slots. Every year some students graduate from medical school but are unable to actually practice medicine because they don't get matched to a residency program. We need Congress to increase funding.

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-fun...

>and tort reform to manage the lawsuits to enable lower malpractice insurance costs.

A great insurance company talking point! The purpose of 'tort reform' is to increase insurer profits.

We need more medical malpractice lawsuits, not less!

Medical errors cause an estimated 250,000 deaths in the United States annually.