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On the recordMarch 3, 2010
Well, but it is something that needs to be dealt with. If we just kind of run through that, I think people can understand. You are a doctor. You have somebody who is ill, and you think, well, I am pretty sure this is what is wrong with them, but it could be five other things, so I am going to run all these tests, some of them are very expensive tests, just in case, no matter what, so if anything goes wrong, anybody gets me in a courtroom, I can say I did absolutely everything that anybody could do, and a whole lot more besides. Well, of course, that costs a whole lot more money, and they are doing it strictly to cover their tails because they don't want to be sued and have millions and millions of dollars thrown against them and run their cost of insurance up. Now, if their insurance goes up and up and up, guess how they have to pay for that insurance? By charging the patients more money. So that is how this tort reform can save in various States. We don't have to study it. It saved a whole lot of money in a great number of States.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker discusses the impact of tort reform on healthcare costs and medical practices.

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