TORT REFORM? Hell no. Reform the Tort Feasor, first.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

Where the hell are the spines of our D reps and senators? Where are their heads? Why are their rectums so plugged up? Oh, wait, the last two questions just answered each other.

The problem with medical malpractice is not the litigation by seriously damaged, injured people, whose doctors screwed up royally, but rather, the problem is that a small percentage of doctors screw up far more than their talented brothers and sisters, and cause hundreds of thousand of innocent victims unneeded pain, suffering, brain damage, even death.

THAT SHOULD BE OUR MEME. THAT SHOULD BE OUR FRAME. THAT SHOULD BE OUR RESPONSE. Where the hell is our party?

[closeupready]

1. It's sad - the 'health care reforms' this Democratic Congress has been working on reads like a GOP

laundry wishlist from pre-2009.

[Wapsie B]

2. Ask Rahm and the DLC.

We just can't be seen as the anti-business party. :sarcasm:

[juajen]

3. Tort reform is a joke.

We have a cap on medical malpractice awards in the state of louisiana, and all it does is contribute to bad practitioners getting away with anything they want to get away with.

We also have a medical review board, and if your lawsuit gets past that then the cap arises to block any meaningful award. This contributes to bad medicine and also prevents many lawsuits that are viable from going forward, as the board is composed of three of your peers. AIN'T THAT SPECIAL?

It is totally untrue that frivolous lawsuits are crowding the court dockets. All expenses of litigation are borne by the lawyer if the lawsuit is not a good one. No lawyer wants to lose that kind of money. These are usually settled for a fraction of the cost, or thrown out of court, or lawyers refuse to litigate them. It is the serious ones that continue. A wait of eight years is the norm. By this time, the plaintiffs are exhausted, broke, and a lot have died.

Tort lawyers are large supporters of the democratic party. If this is seriously considered, there will be a death of the democratic party as we know it.

In states where tort reform has passed, the premiums for medical practice have not gone down. Statistics have been provided on here time and again.

[Kitty Herder]

4. K&R

[Johonny]

5. I feel there's no problem fixing malpractice insurance

if the Dems want to "fix" health care insurance. I see the problem as the insurance companies ripping off doctors for profit every bit as they rip off patients. The reasons for the forever increasing premiums on malpractice insurance never seem to exist when they look at actual lawsuits. It's a made up issue insurance companies exploit to rob more people. Sadly with universal health care patients that suffer from malpractice would be covered from injuries received and thus there would be much less need for lawsuits...