GOP Fires First Shot Over the Bow Prior to Healthcare Summit
Newt Gingrich thought he’d start his party’s preparation for the Healthcare Summit by rustling up some fake statistics to support Republican’s favorite healthcare subject: tort reform. He did a great job too. His think tank, Center for Health Transformation, funded Jackson Healthcare, a healthcare management company, to direct a physician survey on defensive medicine costs. Their results: defensive medicine accounts for 26% of US healthcare costs annually, to the tune of $650 billion.
