No Tort Reform in Health Care Bill

Howard Dean explains the reason there is no tort reform in the health care bill is because they, "didn't want to take on the trial lawyers". Nice

Pesky Palin is back

Palin has posted on her Facebook account again. This time she is talking about how there should be no health care reform without tort reform. She even quotes President Clinton.

So what can we do? First, we cannot have health care reform without tort reform. The two are intertwined. For example, one supposed justification for socialized medicine is the high cost of health care. As Dr. Scott Gottlieb recently noted, “If Mr. Obama is serious about lowering costs, he'll need to reform the economic structures in medicine—especially programs like Medicare.” [1] Two examples of these “economic structures” are high malpractice insurance premiums foisted on physicians (and ultimately passed on to consumers as “high health care costs”) and the billions wasted on defensive medicine.