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Doctors' Spending Exceeds Insurance as Many Take Steps to Protect Themselves; Patients' Wishes Push Up Bills, Too
The Wall Street Journal; subscription may be required Sept. 3, 2009
Excerpt: Calculating how much defensive medicine actually costs is extremely difficult, because medical professionals often have many motivations for ordering tests and other procedures. The U.S. spends a higher percentage of its gross domestic product on health care than any other nation in the industrialized world. Legal expenses contribute to the bill. Even so, health-care experts say the direct costs of medical malpractice -- the insurance premiums, claims paid and legal fees -- amount to a very small portion of overall health-care spending.... Indirect costs that stem in part from medical professionals looking for legal protection play a far larger role in health-care spending, doctors and some analysts say.
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