Politicians that offer no solution to healthcare costs beyond legislating ad hoc limits on malpractice lawsuit settlements are just posturing for votes IMHO. Such caps are also worth little. They may be effective at reducing the legal risk of medical practice for providers and slightly lower physicians malpractice insurance but they are far too legally dangerous in practice. No legislature can reasonably determine the maximum allowable damage an incident of malpractice should create. And because the possibility still remains for egregious events of malpractice to warrant damages far larger than this “cap”, such limitations end up inhibiting justice for those who are truly harmed by the worst cases of true malpractice.

I want to start a thread on malpractice so when people want caps they will know what they are really saying. Believe me at this point they do not.