ObamaCare is set to start penalizing doctors who order too many tests. The goal is to reduce the cost by eliminating defensive medicine. Many doctors order expensive tests to cover the legal ass.

It seems to me, ObamaCare is treating the symptom and not the cause. If the problem is defensive medicine because of law suits, then the legal system needs to be fixed. Penalizing doctors will lead not to reduced costs but to doctor who avoid the sickest among us. They will avoid them by which specialty they select or by limiting the number of patients they see.

Why is it that the left never learns the lesson of unintended consequences.

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