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Sorry, I don't see the forest, either; maybe it was a poor choice of cliche. I think it's important that the price system has been almost totally destroyed in American health care, but I'm not sure how that happened. I'm impressed by Singapore maintaining a price system.

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I don’t see a reason why medical professionals should be protected from “unlimited” punitive damages when no other industry is. What makes them different? Why should they not be held responsible for their own actions?A good question. Perhaps punitive damages in all professions should be capped. It's just that I've never heard of someone suing their plumber or their auto mechanic for tens of millions of dollars. Doctors are pretty much the only self-employed people who can be hit with lawsuits in that dollar range. If auto mechanics were regularly hit with million-dollar lawsuits, and all had to take out insurance against that, and the rising cost of auto repair was a major drain on our economy, then I would advocate capping punitive damages against auto mechanics.

Also, perhaps punitive damages should not be capped for class-action suits.

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