Government doesn’t know best. But government screwed things up by creating a legal system that allows such ridiculously large suits to take place. Since they broke it, it’s their job to fix it. And tort reform is the best first step to fixing the escalating costs in health care.
The best step is to open up interstate commerce on medical insurance, and give options to the consumer in programs they wish to chose. Lawsuits while not completely neligible (to cost), have significantly less to do with rising costs...than obstructed trade and choice.
In this case, I will say it’s a matter of state-developed monopolies/mandates...that’s the underlining problem. The federal authority (underlined in our Constitution) on maintaining free-trade among the states...is an important thing to address.
Romney’s wrong in his view, and while I generally agree with Reagan...we do need federal authority to step in and say trade among the states must not be impeded. If it continues to be, it’s evitable that HillRomney Care comes to be.
“Since they broke it, it’s their job to fix it. And tort reform is the best first step to fixing the escalating costs in health care.”
Fix it at the state and local level!
Yes. Total Tort Reform, not just medical sub-tort reform.