Page 11 - Malpractice Suits News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Government is getting too involved in this. you want the government to go in here. how would they mandate this cost control? >> this is a very important question. it all comes down to what would people be asked to buy into? accountable. they have projected costs will increase by 6.2%. if we could take that down even a percentage point, you could say very significantly. >> government-imposed cap on costs to hospitals? >> no. here's what we would do. basically start tracking end pend tours, look at the areas we're seeing increases. in the physician area, if we were to give in this legislation do...

Hey, jim. >> hello, shep. well president obama agrees with those who say a lot can be saved in health care by reforming the laws governing malpractice suits so doctors won't order unnecessary tests. he is only proposing giving the states $25 million for grants and demonstration projects, not actually reforms. and the democrat think tank found that some states have already tried such reforms and that expanding them nationally would reap massive savings. >> we found that roughly between 92 and $207 billion per year can be saved from reducing defensive medicine. >> how? what some states have done...

Care reform, question now though is, will it succeed? suzanne malveaux is live at the white house. what can we expect to hear from the president as he unveils this latest proposal? >> reporter: kiran, that's a good question about whether or not he's going to succeed. aides are saying this is his final act. showing he is open to some republican ideas and at the same time push along the people in his own party on the fence about this. one of things he did yesterday, send a letter to the leadership of democrats as well as republicans, remember the bipartisan health care sum submit last thursday, ...

White house correspondent, suzanne malveaux, is back with us, with a preview. suzanne, what do we expect to hear from the president next hour? >> reporter: well, tony, aides say that this is his final act essentially that he's going to be putting this forward. this is something that he's calling for bipartisanship. he's trying to show that he's open to some republican ideas that came out of the bipartisan health care summit at the white house last thursday. some of those things that he's going to be embracing, he says, taking on fraudulent medical charges, something that came up from the repub...

And it's basically nothing. they want to go back to the starting line but then they want to carry us backwards. you know me, chris. i used to be a moderate democrat during the clinton years. i am no longer moderate with these guys. they have radicalized, because their whole approach is survival of the fittest. if you can't afford health care, tough. suffer. but better that you suffer than what we tax the investment profits of wealthy people in this country. they had nothing to offer. no exchanges, no subsidies, no malpractice suits, no matter of what nature. they are not willing to compromise....