Malpractice Torte Reform as a Healthcare Reform Cost Cutter

The Republicans in Congress tried to get Torte reform into both the House and the Senate versions of a healthcare reform bill, but the Democrats removed these amendments from the legislation.  Given the facts about the expense of malpractice insurance and the added costs, why wouldn't our law makers want some form of Torte reform in the new legislation?  You have answered the question already, the ABA is a strong special interest group and there are many law firms that specialize in medical malpractice and make millions (like our cheating friend John Edwards), and they (ABA) does not want any from of reform.  They want to be able to stick it to the doctors and hospitals as much as they can and just reel in the money.  So, the doctors and hospitals have no recourse then to cover their butts by making sure that there are no avenues left open for a malpractice suit.  Remember, our Congressmen/women are all career politicians and they like their job and will do whatever bidding they need in order to get reelected.  The Democrats have the majority in both the House and the Senate, Obama is a Democrat, and he is the President.  They do not want this to change, so they feel they have to pay back those that supported their elections, such as the auto unions, SEIU, the ABA, AARP, and many other special interest groups and they are not shy about it.  Obama and his cohorts are very arrogant and actually stick it in our faces without any guilt about what they are doing (typical Chicago politics). It is obvious by their behavior with the stimulus bill, the cap and trade (socalled energy bill), and now the healthcare bill, all of which they are attempting to jam down the throats of the American people without any discussion or debate.  They treat us like we are their slaves and they are the masters.  They just want us to work hard and send them money in the form of all kinds of taxes, and then just shut up and do what they want.  They are the experts on everything that is important in this country, and they should be in total control...sound like communism or socialism?  Is this what you want?  If not, then sound off, and be ready to vote out these arrogant socialists in the next election cycles. 

Our health care system is if not the best in the world at the very least one of the best.  Why in the world would you try to limit the people choice or access to it?  How is that against the people?  I am not 100% up to date on all the bills floating around on Capital hill right now but they all seem to miss the target on health care reform.  It seems to me to be insurance reform or getting the uninsured covered.  You might think this is the same but they are two very different issues.  We all can agree that health care insurance premiums have gone up substantially.  The question has to be why?  Is it the greedy insurance companies?  Is it the greedy doctors?  Is it the greedy uninsureds that pick cable TV over health insurance and then use the emergency room for the sniffles?  Is it the greedy angioplasty patient that still smokes a pack a day? Is it the greedy government that pays $.20 on the $1.00 to doctors who see Medicaid patients?  Or is it the greedy lawyer that signs on to a asinine law suit? All these factors and others add cost to healthcare and can be addressed with out limiting choice.  If your goal is to insurer the uninsured then you have to start a costly social program.   

Here is my plan for healthcare and insurance reform:

1.     Give insurance companies and/or the insured’s companies a tax break for giving customers incentives for becoming heather.

2.     Give insurance companies the right to sell policies across state lines.

3.     Give tax rebate on private insurance policies.

4.     Make it that any lawsuit on a doctor has to have another doctor sign a affidavit that they feel it is not frivolous before it can be filed.

5.     Expand Medicaid and/or Medicare to accept low income and the uninsurable.

6.     Overhaul Medicaid and Medicare to prevent fraud, promote a healthy life style, and pay for results and not by the procedure.