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: Maryland Injury Lawyer BlogMedical Malpractice and the Cost of Health Care
Robert J. Samuelson is one of the country?s most prolific economists. His regular columns in Newsweek and the Washington Post secure his status as an opinion leader on economic issues of our day.
Samuelson is unrepentantly a proponent of Reagan supply side economics. I?ll bet you a thousand bucks he voted for President Bush. Twice.
This week, Samuelson wrote a depressing article on the health care debacle President Obama inherits. He speaks to the nuance of the problem you do not often hear from non economists. To the chagrin of medical malpractice tort reform proponents, there is no mention of medical malpractice insurance premiums or defensive medicine as part of the health care problem.
Full post as published by Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).
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