New Jersey keeps feeding the plaintiff lawyers. “And of course whenever this topic comes up here, someone always trots out the red-herring study showing that plaintiff-bar parasitism only increases the cost of health insurance by one or two percent. The real costs are indirect, as providers overprescribe diagnostics and procedures designed more to insulate themselves from malpractice awards than from improving outcomes for patients, and decline to provide certain services at all.”
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