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Tort reform would decrease healthcare costs in 2 ways. First, the doctors would pay less for malpractice insurance, a savings they could pass on to us. More significantly, doctors would feel less pressure to practice so much defensive medicine. Today,m if you tell your doc you have a headache, he may order an MRI and a cat scan to cover himself from being sued. In a reasonable world, if he wasn't so afraid of being sued, he'd give you 2 asprin.
I'm not sure how else you significantly cut costs. In my opinion (reasonable folks can disagree) docs deserve to make a good living, it takes a lot to become a doctor, and they don't start making money until they're in their 30's, and they have tons of debt.
It's a very complicated problem, I don't pretend to have the answer. What I do know is that Obamacare will not, can not, lower costs.
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