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.

The specialties that would benefit the most are high risk specialists such as neurosurgeons or OB/GYN s. Again it may help rural availability for these specialties but very little reduction in costs overall to the consumer.

No Roman I am sure that capping claims in malpractice incidents would change very little for the cost of healthcare.