In terms of efficency this change does make sense.

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Submitted by Lyle (United States), Mar 26, 2010 10:13

Note the article discusses all the overhead involved in a small practice, a larger group can share the overhead and reduce costs. Now as noted it becomes less a relationship with a single physician and more with a group, which means moves towards comparitive effectivness as the group begins to impose standards on physicians. Eventually we will get a bill saying that if you follow best practices as defined by a medical group, then it is not malpractice (end of story). Of course the current bill, does have an effect on malpractice, if you are already covered for medical expenses, you can't recover them in court. (no double dipping). With no lifetime limits etc, it becomes a question of long term care costs and the like, but not direct medical expenses, unless the insurance industry wants to sue itself. (which insurance companies love to do, it's called subrogation). One more change would be to outlaw subrogation on medical expenses, and since you have no loss you can't sue for them.

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