CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings December 12, 2013
You take all this Great Technology that we have in america today, you have physicians who are worried about being sued, of course theyre going to probably run duplicative tests. There are probably hospitals, anybody who is involved in the delivery of health care in this country knows very well about the cost of practicing defensive medicine. There have been lots of studies on it done, all of which conclude that it adds significantly to the cost of delivering health care in this country. There are differences of opinion about how much that is, but there is no question that its a factor in the h...