Comments on: Healthcare Policy Roundup June 9, 2009 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2009/06/healthcare-policy-roundup-june-9-2009/ A blog from inside the emergency department Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:19:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2009/06/healthcare-policy-roundup-june-9-2009/#comment-8864 Matt Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:58:13 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=2810#comment-8864 "How could this happen if insurers are raking in the money and are really responsible for the medical malpractice crisis?" Without knowing the investment decisions they've made, your sarcastic question will have to remain unanswered. The fact is, though, that medical malpractice is profitable over the long term. Or do you think Warren Buffet is in the habit of buying businesses whose profit model doesn't work. Or maybe NY docs have been committing more malpractice? We don't have enough information to reach a conclusion. "but if we turn the armed services court system into another civilian medical malpractice system, how many military docs will leave" Probably none, since the money wouldn't come from their own pockets anyway. Doctors aren't rushing out the door in civilian practice now, so why would it change in military practice? “How could this happen if insurers are raking in the money and are really responsible for the medical malpractice crisis?”

Without knowing the investment decisions they’ve made, your sarcastic question will have to remain unanswered. The fact is, though, that medical malpractice is profitable over the long term. Or do you think Warren Buffet is in the habit of buying businesses whose profit model doesn’t work. Or maybe NY docs have been committing more malpractice? We don’t have enough information to reach a conclusion.

“but if we turn the armed services court system into another civilian medical malpractice system, how many military docs will leave”

Probably none, since the money wouldn’t come from their own pockets anyway. Doctors aren’t rushing out the door in civilian practice now, so why would it change in military practice?

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