You are losing sight of the argument. If I understand your above post your comparison was that of the money made by trial attorneys from medical malpractice cases as opposed to the money made by insurance carriers from medical malpractice insurance premiums. My response to you was that the money made by trial attorneys is small by comparison to the medical malpractice insurance premiums charged insurance industry. ...a fraction are sued while all practitions pay the premiums. As I had indicated above the medical malpractice premiums are extremely high multiplied by all contributing practitioners and added to that the number of years that each pays it. Your citation to the 25% would seem to confirm that.

With respect to the prediction of medicare going bust, the prediction made by Antos is simply a warning. It is not cast in stone. A similar statement is made with respect to Social Security if you take a look at the annual statement you receive. Neither system is going to be allowed to fail. No elected official wants his name associated with such a disaster...especially with the greatly increased number of voters drawing upon it in the next decade. The funds will be found and the system will be tweeked to make it work. Even our illustrious president took a shot at it with his proposal to allow younger tax payers to privately invest a portion of their FICA payments. The funds are there. It is a matter of reallocating government spending. I remember reading a statement by an economist two years ago which indicated that half the funds we had spent in Iraq to that date could have been used to fund Social Security for several decades to come. The same is true of Medicare.

Insofar as introducing evidence...you have not introduced evidence. You have cited authority to support your position. There is a difference. Right now I am in the middle of a trial, and do not have time to do extensive research for purposes of discussion, but will be happy to take the matter up with you at a later date.