YID With LID: 43 MILLION Reasons There is No Tort Reform in Obamacare: "According to Investor's Business Daily:
Old Democratic presidential aspirant John Edwards won $175 million in judgments over a 12-year period suing doctors, hospitals and insurance companies, everyone but the candy stripers, over infant cerebral palsy cases allegedly caused by mishandled deliveries.
As the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists noted in a study in 2003, cerebral palsy could not be blamed in the 'vast majority' of cases on delivery trouble. Edwards enriched himself by using bad science to bankrupt innocent physicians.
Its not just the insurance costs, but these lawsuits cause doctors to run additional and possibly unessential procedures:
The New York Times has reported that as a result of such lawsuits, 'doctors have responded by changing the way they deliver babies, often seeing a relatively minor anomaly on a fetal heart monitor as justification for an immediate cesarean.'"
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