I have a dear frind who is in her 2nd year of medical residency. she is a single mother of 2 and is now 200,000 dollars in debt from her schooling. She is going into family medicine and from watching her in action whoever hires her has a gem of a doctor who is among the most intelligent hard working people I know. Her biggest concern? The cost of medical mal practice insurance. That is a large part of what is driving up the cost of health care.
there is a horrible catch 22 here. one doctors who are grossly neglegent need to be held to account.. on the other hand doctors are human and every single one of them will make errors and they shouldn't be punished for being human.
By being her friend i have come to find out that there is becoming a huge shortage of doctors in this country. with medical mal practice insurance the way it is there is very little incentive to become a doctor, particularly in a rural area a single doctor simply cannot afford to be in business for himself th insucrance is too expensive.. we are heading for a potentially huge disaster here, a shortage of quality health care providers