Here is the link to her facebook piece: Sarah Palin: No Health Care Reform Without Legal Reform
PING!
You’ll notice that Palin’s Facebook post about Tort Reform has not gained nearly the amount of attention as her previous post about 0bamacare. My guess is that the media is now moving into ignore mode, for the simple fact that if they publicized it tort reform would become the rallying cry against 0bamacare right along with “death panels.” That is why we should spread the word about her tort reform post as much as we can, email it to friends, relatives, and anyone else interested in the 0bamacare debate.
" such as when "pregnant women in rural central Mississippi (for example) travel 65 miles to locate obstetric wards to deliver because family practitioners at local hospitals faced with rising malpractice insurance premiums stopped providing obstetric services."
Why does the gub'mint believe that they can force doctors to perform abortions against their beliefs, but not force OB's to continue providing their services?
I wonder if some type of tort reform with teeth were added whether it would attract more Republicans than the Democrats who would flee from it.
Are there enough Democrats who want a bill “at any cost” who would agree to that? Are there enough Republicans that would trust the Dems not to either de-fang tort reform or scrub entirely when it got to committee?
I have my doubts that a) the Dems would agree to meaningful tort reform and b) enough Repubs would agree to socialized medicine in return for getting tort reform. I don’t think I’d touch it.
Bob Beckel is a perfect example of why Fox News is *way* more “fair & balanced” than most of the rest. The guy is such a rude, hyper-partisan lout that I simply change the channel to something less offensive until they have moved to the next segment. IMHO, he makes Carville look almost reasonable.
So how can we possible have tort reform when all our doctors are lined up waiting to cut off our limbs.
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Better terminology than “tort reform” has to be found. When most people think of tort, they envision a layered cake, not anything to do with lawyers.
Just like “cap and trade”. The title is not descriptive of what it actually is - most likely on purpose.
That’s why the “death panel” nomenclature was so effective. People knew immediately what it was.
I don’t think we should let politicians get away with naming something in order to obfuscate its meaning.
Not really; but have you ever heard anyone in Washington bring up the exorbitant, unaffordable rates lawyers charge! THAT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL FRICKIN' LAWYERS IN CONGRESS!!!!!!!!
I am only bigoted in one thing in life; I believe everyone should be treated equal by race, creed, religion, age, gender, or occupation. I only HATE one type of people in this world: LAWYERS! I don't even care if they call themselves "conservative" lawyers; that is an oxymoron. I know this won't be popular on this site because many so-called conservative lawyers can really say the right things; but they are lawyers. Don't ever believe any of them.
Carpenters build things. Doctors heal. Preachers preach. Lawyers lie. End of story. You will never convince me otherwise. Please look at my tagline for my opinion.
Exactly what you said. And, I “heard” it first from you!
It’s plain common sense! Who can argue that tort reform is not needed when the premiums for malpractice insurance are so sky high, and when lawyers lurk like starving rodents around hospitals looking for chumps they can talk into suing for virtually anything.
It’s such a scam! The lawyers know that at the very worst, they won’t get as much as they dream about, but they are supremely confident that they are sure to get something.
If these jackels had to pony up some major bucks out of their own damned pockets when one of their pie in the sky, let’s-shoot-for-the-moon-and-hope-we-get-a-stupid-jury lawsuits went wahooney-shaped on them, they would be a lot less eager to clog up the courtrooms.
Absent the pressure from those cannibals, insurance rates might come down a bit and doctors might be more willing to pass a bit of savings on to the patients.