Medical-Malpractice (TORT) Reform Defensive medicine costs more than $100 billion a year. Texas and New York show us the path forward here.
Support medical malpractice tort reform to reduce defensive medicine costs and malpractice insurance rates.
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Evidence
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Scott wrote that the CARE Act's conservative framework included medical malpractice reform to expand health care access and address underlying causes of increasing medical costs.
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Scott's official health-care issue page lists Medical-Malpractice (TORT) Reform among his real solutions to rising health care costs, citing defensive medicine costs and lower malpractice insurance rates after Texas tort reform.
Assessments
The promise was to support medical malpractice tort reform, not necessarily to enact it. During the 2014 special-election Senate term, Scott publicly backed a conservative health-care framework that included medical malpractice reform as a cost-control measure, and his Senate issue materials continued to list tort reform as a solution for defensive medicine costs and malpractice insurance rates. That satisfies the support commitment within the relevant federal office context.