So frivolous litigation is less than one percent of health care costs and removing all of them would change our health insurance fees by about 22 cents per month. I keep hearing this, but you're not saying there's no problem. It's just not the biggest problem. Plane crashes cause less than one percent of deaths worldwide, but it's enough to scare people onto trains and buses. Perhaps we would have more doctors and more competition if they weren't scared of the guy claiming that sponge wasn't in there before. How do we know it wasn't a magic trick gone horribly wrong? Where did the sponge go? Nobody knows.
Maybe we need to rethink our core values here. Our whole judicial system is based on Blackstone's "better ten guilty go free than one innocent man be wronged", but is that really best for society? It's the same deal God made with Abraham, if 10 good people were found in Sodom then he wouldn't destroy it (guess they only found 9). Maybe it's better that a couple of innocents be scooped up with the bad people to keep the rest of us safe. If we throw out anything that looks frivolous to protect the corporations, businesses will thrive and they'll start hiring again with this trickle down theory. One step better, we could start putting people in jail for frivolous lawsuits and scare away some minor real claims and then we're really taking a chunk out of health care costs because they won't have to be as "careful". Just like everything else, you get what you pay for so there would be special premium health care services with guaranteed quality for those willing to pay. It's the American way.
If planes didn't crash, who would get on a train?
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