One of the reasons healthcare is so expensive is the amount of lawsuits, and high awards for malpractice. True, doctors and healthcare providers should be held responsible for mistakes, but the award amounts for so-called "ambulance chaser" cases are out of control. Lawyers prey on the feelings of the juries coercing them to award millions of dollars for relatively minor mistakes which do not even result in long-term injury or chronic problems. This leads doctors to increase their prices for office visits to cover the costs of their rising insurance premiums due to a claim. Enact Tort reform to limit the amounts for most awards due to medical mistakes and a limit to the intangible so-called "pain and suffering. This is difficult to place a monetary value on and is too arbitrary.