As we’ve noted before , it’s tough to know just how much medical malpractice contributes to health-care spending. Not only do you have direct costs like malpractice premiums, you also have the harder-to-quantify indirect costs of defensive medicine, like extra tests doctors order out of fear of lawsuits. But its the job of the number crunchers at CBO to put a number on that sort of thing, and they’ve just come out with their latest figures on the subject

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Medical Malpractice: How Much Money Would an Overhaul Save?

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