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To: DesertRhino

Yess, tort reform. It is the damn lawyers that have caused healthcare costs to skyrocket in the first place.


26 posted on 01/30/2016 11:03:43 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood
Yess, tort reform. It is the damn lawyers that have caused healthcare costs to skyrocket in the first place.

About half the states in the country already have enacted tort reform capping the payouts for malpractice suits. In most cases this has resulted in a reduction in malpractice insurance rates but I'm not aware of any study showing that it also reduced healthcare insurance premiums.

48 posted on 01/31/2016 9:41:21 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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