For a minute, let us take a look at but one example of how this comes into play by increasing a doctors medical insurance and thus our overall health care costs.  My business partner was in a minor car accident recently.  He received no less than 30 calls from different attorneys over the next week attempting to get him to sue and claim neck or back injury or pain.  He was fine, they insisted he visit their doctors, chiropractors, and other specialists to initiate a lawsuit.  This same thing happens when someone has surgery, loses a finger in a lawn mower accident, etc... Unethical legal professionals want to sue the doctors even if the case is completely frivolous.  Then the insurance companies have to hire or pay their lawyers to defend the doctors in these law suits and the never ending circle of legal chicanery continues.  The lawyers have us all caught in a no win situation.  They sue doctors and file frivolous suits and demand that people have rights to file these suits in order to protect them.  Certainly no one would argue that people have such rights, but only in real cases.  Not cases initiated simply to acquire money with paid expert witnesses and paid examining physicians and sometimes plaintiffs who are simply lying.  Filing so many frivolous suits and so frequently, the legal profession has become the cause of the high malpractice insurance that doctors have to pay. 

So we say, let's start this medical cost reform with a healthy dose of tort reform.  Let's have recourse on attorneys who file frivolous suits, let's have tort reform where doctors can sue attorneys for any lawsuit they file which the attorney loses and where the doctor was found to have committed no wrongdoing or malpractice.  Certainly if the initiated suit discredits the doctor or puts them through unnecessary legal action, then the initiating attorney should be held accountable.  Let's start there and see how dramatically these frivolous suits drop off.