O'no KK telling us about tort reform again. More lib spin as well. Let me tell you something with no spin from a actual point of view of someone that deals with this day in and day out. You can make the judgement.
The total cost of 2% is right off the white house talking points home page. And total cost are misleading. This is how it works in the real world. Not the KK or whitehouse spin world. When you look at the total costs of the entire system it is misleading. That includes all the govern B.S., all the insuance b.s. and everything from procedures to paperwork. The direct cost for someone in private practice is huge as it is the Dr. him or herself that pays for it(malpractice insur). And I will tell you directly that is a hell of a lot more than 2% of my income to pay for it. Thousands a year and that cost is passed to the consumer. Larger hospitals work differently but those of us in private fee for pratices must pass that large expense on in higher costs or we would be out of business. Fix it and the cost for private services will drop more than 2% guarenteed. Separate out the the bureaucatric B.S., goveern waste, medicare, and it is much larger than the figure directly costing Drs than that given by KK with CBO cut and paste.
Now this is in a fee for service practice and not govern or insurance driven. A little different in those practices but I just needed to give a different point of view on tort reform.