Nikki Haley for advocating healthcare tort reform during the Republican debate. Haley and the WSJ believe that excessive malpractice lawsuits increase healthcare costs by forcing doctors to pay for expensive insurance and by incentivizing unnecessary defensive procedures.Even if lawsuits were a major source of health cost inflation, tort law reform invites unintended consequences.
Doctors may increase risky surgeries, for example, if they have less fear of being sued. Studies suggest that reforms have contributed toThe policies that cause high and rising healthcare costs are subsidies for health insurance . Politicians looking to constrain health costs should trim these subsidies.DeSantis threatens removal of all AP high school classes in war with College Board