Pay My Malpractice Insurance and Call Me in the Morning

Sandra Boodman, in a Washington Post story sent to us by the Northwest Herald, interviews two physicians who require extra fees of insure patients. One asks $10 each - again that's from the patient - to cover his $10,000 malpractice bill. Another writes of his $125 fee (to cover his $30,000 bill) that "he felt compelled to act ... after his income dipped below the national average for his specialty, about $140,000."