By Nick Beaudrot
This is Nick Beaudrot of Electoral Math, here. I'll be helping out Ezra this weekend, providing y'all with a numerical look into the current state of the political world. Which is good timing on Ezra's part, since he just brought up the subject of malpractice costs and the insurance industry's bogus claims that costs are on the rise; a few months ago, I took a look at the question of just how far out of line US malpractice costs are by comparing the medicolegal systems of several countries: France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and Sweden.