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> If states actually wanted to address the costs of defensive medicine, they would do something like create affirmative defenses for doctors who adhered to certain established testing protocols.

Not a bad suggestion but resolving regulatory overhead by instituting regulation is a bit, suboptimal, IMHO.

The better solution is to reduce costs of the tests themselves:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17620197

In the software world, we have enjoyed significant productivity boost using Git/Hg/FOSSIL vs. CVS/SVN.

Branching in CVS/SVN was so expensive that people rarely do it. It takes me 2 seconds to branch in Git/Hg/FOSSIL




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