Lawsuits drive up cost of health care
Richard Keller is wrong when he says Congressman Kirk doesn't see the problems in our health care system. Keller and Kirk just disagree on what the problems are.
Medicaid only covering the old, the disabled and the poor is not a problem. That is how Medicaid is supposed to work.
It provides health care for those who cannot provide it for themselves.
A healthy adult can work and get health care through his job; he shouldn't need Medicaid nor should he be entitled to it.
The real problem facing our health care system is ever-rising costs for health care providers that they then pass on to us.
And the single biggest cause for those costs is out of control medical malpractice lawsuits.
When a doctor gets sued, his malpractice insurance goes up and thus his prices go up.
When a doctor is afraid of being sued, he practices defensive medicine and orders expensive, unneeded tests.
Lawsuits and fear of lawsuits make health care far more expensive than it should be.
Kirk has consistently voted for medical liability reform to drive down the cost of health care and bring it within reach of those who current cannot afford the inflated price tag.
I'm sure that when he attended medical school, Dr. eller was taught that you should treat the cause of an illness as well as the symptoms.
Congressman Kirk is treating the cause of our health care crisis: Ot of control costs caused by lawsuit abuse. Fix the cause and the symptoms will go away.
William Murphy
Des Plaines