Lawyers Are Not the Problem With Our Health Care System

     I understand that the unseemly conduct of certain personal injury attorneys,  through actions and their cheesy advertising, make lawyers an easy target for ridicule and blame.  However, blaming lawyers for the high cost and other ills associated with our health care system is wrong and inaccurate,
     The primary complaint in this regard is that the threat of lawsuits and lawyers is the reason why doctors order "unnecessary tests".  Just what is an unnecessary test?  I wish one of our politicians who complain about these procedures would define just what an "unnecessary test", is.  In my family, and in yours, if our doctor recommends a test to rule out a desease or potential health problem with one of our family members, even though the chances that the illness is present are very, very small, we are going to accept that test.  Why do we do this?  Because we want the best care and treatment possible.  Then just what  is an "unnecessary test", then?  It is a test performed on someone other than you or a member of your family.
     So, unless you stop all testing for your family for potentially life threatening deseases when the probability that your child  or spouse actually has that illness is less than say, 10%, stop blaming the lawyers and start blaming the person looking back at you in the mirror.