Kobach's final attack in the economy section is on "legal reforms" and "frivolous lawsuits." We've dealt with this issue before and believe the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said it best:
Malpractice costs amounted to an estimated $24 billion in 2002, but that figure represents less than 2 percent of overall health care spending. 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.
As for non-medical lawsuits, Kobach had better watch where he steps, as it turns out that businesses file four times as many lawsuits than individuals represented by the dreaded trial lawyers and "businesses and their attorneys were 69 percent more likely than individual tort plaintiffs and their attorneys to be sanctioned for engaging in frivolous litigation."
Maybe there is a problem with frivolous lawsuits after all...just not the one we expected.
