An interesting column by Hugh Hewitt, 'Without Tort Reform it isn't Health Care Reform - It's a Plaintiffs' Lawyers Protection Act. Hewitt opines that the one group the congress and Commissar Barack Hussein Obama have asked to sacrifice are the trial lawyers. He says, "Obamacare deserves to die for a lot of reasons, but large among them is the sheer duplicity of demanding deep sacrifices of everyone except the plaintiffs' lawyers who have grown rich beyond most people's imaginations profiting off of the doctors and hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that work to keep Americans healthy."
What Hewitt does fail to mention is the major consequence of tort reform failure. That's defensive medicine which drives up the cost of treatment through duplicative and unnecessary tests that doctors feel they need to do just to protect themselves from law suits.
Yes, the whole discussion of health care reform is a sham as long as tort reform and its consequence, defensive medicine, isn't addressed.
For more see: http://townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2009/09/04/without_tort_reform,_it_isnt_health_care_reform_--its_a_plaintiffs_lawyers_protection_act
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Why not ask former trial attorney Lee Terry what he thinks about tort reform?
So do you think one of the Doctors could give us a list of all of the unnecessary care that they charge for? This is a red herring, with no real saving to the system, but it fits into the Bush/Rove mantra of attack the lawyers. Minnesota has low rates and lower claims, no caps at all. Expert affidavits and statute of limitations are much better way to go then, caps that are just meant to do cost benefit analysis on peoples lives.
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