However, there is one side of this monetary quagmire we never read or hear anything about -- and I believe it's the one side of this story that would solve the problem of high medical bills, insurance rates and attorney fees.
When people are injured or killed, and it is believed to be the fault of a doctor, instead of trying the case in civil court, the doctor should be tried in criminal court! If he is found guilty of injuring or killing people then throw the criminal in prison!
Because of criminal prosecution, we will see a massive reduction in doctor related medical malpractice and therefore have no need for high medical bills, insurance rates and attorney fees. Except for doctors, if anybody else injures or kills people the alleged criminals are tried in criminal court. We are absolutely stupid to give doctors the ability to buy "insurance" to avoid criminal punishment and all they do is pass the expense to the consumer!
This solution won't do away with medical malpractice insurance entirely. Once doctors are found guilty in criminal court and hauled off to prison, next bring the civil charges and then the insurance companies can pay to take care of the victims. But once the justice system starts throwing these criminal-doctors in prison we will see a massive reduction in medical malpractice cases, and the medical insurance companies will see that reduction in payouts. I mean massive reduction!
But right now, the public is being constantly subjected to the political spin, the criminals remain at large paying professional lobbyists and making hefty campaign donations to both political parties, and the American people are subsidizing this circus.
We don't need tort reform and medical malpractice caps, we need lawmakers to write criminal laws and the justice system to start arresting, prosecuting and punishing doctors who injure and kill people!
--Jim Rudd