Litigation Raising Health Care Costs, Study Says - by Susan Konig - Health Care News

Litigation Raising Health Care Costs, Study Says - by Susan Konig - Health Care News: "An October 2005 report from the Manhattan Institute shows the efforts of trial lawyers to target health care providers for profit are raising U.S. health care costs.

Trial Lawyers, Inc.: Health Care, from scholars at the institute's Center for Legal Policy, concludes this area of litigation is significant because 'health care represents over 15 percent of the U.S. economy, up from only 5 percent in 1961' according to U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data. 'While the excesses of the litigation industry alone cannot explain America's mounting medical costs,' the study notes, 'litigation is a large, and growing, contributor to our health-care bill.'


'Tort Tax' Raises Costs"