I think the argument that skyrocketing medical costs are the fault of lawsuits ("frivolous" or not) is pretty bogus.

As I see it, the problem is Insurance companies and how they are regulated and how they dictate everything that happens in the medical field.

My boss, our CTO, was a pre-med student who worked his way through UCLA as an ambulance driver. He quit because he eventually came to the conclusion that nobody in medicine really worked in medicine--they worked for Insurance companies. They dicatate just about how everything is done by controlling the purse-strings.

So why punish victims and deny their right to redress? Why continue to put the squeeze on doctors as if they have any say in the matter?

I'd like to see statistics from someone that shows that malpractice insurance cost has any real effect on anything.