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Re:The ER charged him $6,589.77 for 6 stitches, cost that le... by atdrummond on Saturday November 20, 2021 @07:42AM (#29287577)
I 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.

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Re:The ER charged him $6,589.77 for 6 stitches, cost that le... by gitfan86 on Saturday November 20, 2021 @08:32AM (#29287906)
You 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.
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