Tort Reform, Texas Style

The Politicizer ^ | 10/15/2009 | Cynthia R. Meyer

[FMoran]

Saying that Republicans have no solutions to the health care crisis is a flat out lie, and an attempt at distraction. The Democrats want the American people to think that there are no other solutions but their plan. They are trying to portray health care as so unfixable, beyond the power of the free market, that the only answer is the hand of government. They want us to believe that government will make it better, that we need the beaurocracy, that we are dependent on the politicians we elect for our basic health needs. They treat us as if we areincapable of doing this on our own, and they lie, telling us a government overhaul will actually help competition prosper (…Do they actually think we are going to buy that?).

When Republicans offer ideas like providing incentives to physicians to expand care and lower costs, allowing state insurance companies to compete with each other, offering tax credits to families with modest incomes, or enacting tort reform, the Democrats dismiss them. They are not even discussed, because discussing the legitimacy of these ideas would discredit their own.

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Medical liability reforms allow doctors to cut costs and increase quality care by saving money from fewer frivolous lawsuits. Since tort reform, so many doctors have moved to Texas that they have had trouble keeping up with license requests. Insurance companies have also relocated to Texas, providing for increased competition in the industry, which has done a great deal to lower costs and broaden coverage.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Here is what is going to kill this health care plan in the end.

The democrats solution to skyrocketing health care costs.... is to INCREASE the costs through legislation!

[cliogunsmith]

The basic underlying concept is that congress should not be doing anything in the way of a massive health care bill as it is unconstitutional. Practical things like tort reform is never included since the politicians whole purpose in life is to gain as much personal wealth as possible from bribes, graft or other crooked deals and get re-elected. 95% of these people have no skills, experience, or other qualifications to do any of the things they attempt. Most are attorneys that have never done anything but talk about work. In the private sector most of them could not qualify for a job to sweep floors or muck out horse stables. At least the latter would expose them to a substance that best matches there experience. Keep close track of who votes for this reform because if it goes through we wlll then have a list of whom to hold acountable. These Basturds must finally learn that there is a consequence for there actions.