While it's a dubious public service that I perform by directing people to Slashdot (the external URL for this article), the original poster writes about an idea for "fixing" healthcare that I've never heard of. Premise: The cost of malpractice insurance is both a burden on patients and medical practitioners who are additionally discouraged both from practicing and offering certain (possibly medically necessary) procedures. Supposition: Transfer the burden of risk to the patient by makin...