http://www.ustvmedia.org/politics-in-america/2009/12/13/the-health-insurance-industry%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98duplicitous%e2%80%99-campaign-to-kill-health-care-reform/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:31:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://www.ustvmedia.org/politics-in-america/2009/12/13/the-health-insurance-industry%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98duplicitous%e2%80%99-campaign-to-kill-health-care-reform/#comment-47035 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:19:37 +0000 http://www.ustvmedia.org/politics-in-america/2009/12/13/the-health-insurance-industry%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98duplicitous%e2%80%99-campaign-to-kill-health-care-reform/#comment-47035 I would like to pose this question to any Senator worth their salt (assuming the senator is not a attorney). Why is TORT REFORM not a major component of this bill? Studies performed by www.BenefitsManager.net and www.DentalInsuranceUtah.net that liability insurance costs are approaching nearly one third of the operating expenses for specialty care physicians, units and facilities. Aside from medical provider costs, insurance carriers such as Humana Health Plans state that their costs of medical liability and defensive medicine accounts for nearly 10 cents out of every premium dollar collected (verified). Compare that to Humana’s reported pharmaceutical claims of 15 cents out of every premium dollar collected. Or better yet, 21 cents out of every premium dollar collected is paid back to physicians for physician treatments. Without TORT REFORM, medical provider costs will never drop. I would like to pose this question to any Senator worth their salt (assuming the senator is not a attorney). Why is TORT REFORM not a major component of this bill? Studies performed by www.BenefitsManager.net and www.DentalInsuranceUtah.net that liability insurance costs are approaching nearly one third of the operating expenses for specialty care physicians, units and facilities. Aside from medical provider costs, insurance carriers such as Humana Health Plans state that their costs of medical liability and defensive medicine accounts for nearly 10 cents out of every premium dollar collected (verified). Compare that to Humana’s reported pharmaceutical claims of 15 cents out of every premium dollar collected. Or better yet, 21 cents out of every premium dollar collected is paid back to physicians for physician treatments. Without TORT REFORM, medical provider costs will never drop.

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