Here's a Good One

While reading an article, I saw an interesting statistic:   80% of all medical malpractice claims paid worldwide are made in the United States.

Now, there are 6.5 billion people in the world and 300 million people in the US. Our country has 5% of the total world population but 80% of all malpractice payouts. Wow. Our physicians must really suck.

As a related aside, here's a medical malpractice suit of note:  a hospital, nurse midwife, and physician (who was visiting family in Korea during alleged incident of malpractice) settled a cerebral palsy birth injury case for $9.5 million.  The case had been steadily progressing through the court system for 14 years prior to settlement.

And Obama refuses to investigate tort reform as a possible avenue to saving money under Obamacare.  It's so amazingly transparent who pads his pockets and plays his puppeteers.  And it ain't us doctors.