http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=4968&sequence=0
Which contains the following:
Looks like high healthcare costs aren't significantly impacted by lawsuits, as I'd come to believe from reading other threads here.Malpractice costs amounted to an estimated $24 billion in 2002, but that figure represents less than 2 percent of overall health care spending.(12) Thus, even a reduction of 25 percent to 30 percent in malpractice costs would lower health care costs by only about 0.4 percent to 0.5 percent, and the likely effect on health insurance premiums would be comparably small.