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Defensive Medicine Costs Much Less Than 'Imagined' By Malpractice Reformists
The combined cost of malpractice -- and doctors' efforts to avoid it by practicing so-called defensive medicine -- costs about $55.6 billion a year, or 2.4 percent of total health spending, according to a new analysis.
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