My cure for health Care in the US

First Step

Malpractice reform (a must)
In Illinois General Practice physicians spend on average $150,000.00 per year on malpractice insurance. So before they even open their practice 150k?
Almost every state controls Workers Compensation awards. Why can’t they put some type of controls on Malpractice? Ninety three percent of medical malpractice law suits go to trial in Illinois as opposed a much less percentage of states that have medical malpractice review panels. Fourteen states currently have such systems. They weed out a lot of non sense suits. There are several things they can do almost immediately:
-federal government can require that states enact their own review panel and/or tort reform in the next 2 years. That is plenty of time to discuss in the legislative sessions.
-change the insurance contract that allows doctors not to agree to claim settlements. Let the malpractice insurance company make business decisions on settling claims. Insurance companies do it so well with other professional liability coverage. Let doctors practice medicine.
-we have risk pools for auto insurance in states why not a risk pool for excessive claims on malpractice? If the doctor is a real butcher he or she will lose their license any way and probably end up in jail? Or they should?
-we have to remember that this is “practicing medicine” and for the most part doctors are healers and should be allowed to do what they do best. “Practice medicine and not practice paper work jumping through hoops for insurance company’s paper work
-there are one hundred thousand deaths a year as a result of medical malpractice. The number one reason for malpractice claims? Misdiagnose. Evidence supports that over the last decade doctors and patients do not communicate properly. We need to become better patients
-we need to focus on restoring Doctor/Patient relationships that have been destroyed partially by managed care. Patients need to start interacting with their medical providers. With the internet and other technology available, there is no excuse