A doctor and a lawyer debate malpractice. Surprise, they disagree:
Medical malpractice costs less than 2 percent of overall health care spending in the United States, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s 2004 report “Limiting Tort Liability for Medical Malpractice.”
“Anything you do in the legal system you can’t make much of a difference as for the cost of medicine,” Corson said.
