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Now can continue to survive? >> i think there are things that we can do on a bipartisan basis to address cost, we can go after the hospital facility fees that no americans believe in, we can go after some of the insurance laws to make sure that they are doing reference pricing, so there could be a bipartisan consensus on cost, and that's what i would urge my republican colleagues to do. >> jon: they say that the cost of malpractice is a huge heart. >> i think that everything should be on the table, but malpractice costs are far less than the cost that hospitals are charging and facility fees a...
>> you can't give the kind of care that you want to give to that many patients. there isn't enough time in the day, your brain can't go that fast. it's not good medicine to take care of large volumes of patients. so if you want to practice medicine the way we all really went into medicine for, or most of us did you have to see a reasonable number of patients, and the reason the managed care companies reimburse at such a low rate, and that's why you have to see so many patients in order to pay your overhead. as you said, malpractice insurance is a huge part of that overhead. megyn: especially f...
And also joining us, karen, a national correspondent for "time" magazine. president obama said among other things, he will commit more money to reduce malpractice costs, and step up efforts to root out fraud in medicare and medicare. what is your take on this? too little too late, or is it good? >> in an overall trillion-dollar health care bill, medical liability reform and the other relatively small steps are not going to be enough to get any republican support. i think what the republicans are looking for is a bill that gives people more flexibility about the kind of coverage that they are a...
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