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In Gesture of Bipartisanship, President Obama to Discuss Medical Malpractice Reform Tonight
ABC News ^ | 2009-09-09 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 09/09/2009 2:57:15 PM PDT by MrLegalReform

But today, the White House indicated that as a gesture of bipartisanship, President Obama would discuss malpractice reform.

“The president is going to talk about the downside of what many doctors have told him is the practicing of defensive medicine, where doctors because they are worried about this order more and more tests in order to make sure that they don't get sued,” Gibbs said on CNN. “That costs our system billions and billions of dollars every year.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: medicalmalpractice; obama; speech; triallawyers
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He's going to take on the trial lawyers? I'll believe it when I see it...
1 posted on 09/09/2009 2:57:16 PM PDT by MrLegalReform
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To: MrLegalReform

gesture? Yeah, right. And that’s about it.


2 posted on 09/09/2009 2:58:44 PM PDT by SueRae
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To: MrLegalReform

Zero chance they lift a finger. The only group the Dems are more beholden to are the teacher unions.


3 posted on 09/09/2009 2:58:55 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: MrLegalReform

He’s still the “Rorschach Candidate”.....


4 posted on 09/09/2009 3:00:11 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: MrLegalReform

Ah, so Zer0 is going to explain his tort reform proposal this evening?

I can’t wait to hear the details!


5 posted on 09/09/2009 3:00:53 PM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: MrLegalReform

Bambi’s meaningful discussion of tort reform:
“In your dreams! TOTUS says that is all for now.”


6 posted on 09/09/2009 3:00:56 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: MrLegalReform

I find it hard to believe he is going to throw the trial lawyers under the bus. I don’t care what he says. Nor do I believe the Democratic Congress will go along with throwing the trial lawyers under the bus.


7 posted on 09/09/2009 3:01:05 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: MrLegalReform

This really *is* all about trying to save his telepromter presidency.


8 posted on 09/09/2009 3:01:05 PM PDT by elizabethgrace
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To: MrLegalReform

If he wants to do a medical malpractice reform, fine. But leave the rest of it out.

NO COMPROMISE. NO OBAMACARE. NONE.


9 posted on 09/09/2009 3:01:44 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I'll give him credit for bringing up an issue the Dems have seemingly tried to sweep under the carpet, but I'm with you - I'll believe it when I see it.
10 posted on 09/09/2009 3:02:57 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Hey Nancy, how many jobs have been lost since you and the Democrats took Congress?)
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To: MrLegalReform
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11 posted on 09/09/2009 3:03:37 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: SueRae; All
EXACTLY SUE! ABC HAS IT RIGHT:
GESTURE. No Action.

12 posted on 09/09/2009 3:04:58 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: mainepatsfan

“Zero chance they lift a finger.”

The gesture will be the ‘lifting’ of the middle finger.


13 posted on 09/09/2009 3:05:43 PM PDT by charmedone
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To: mainepatsfan

Zero chance they lift a finger.
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Zero will lift a finger alright ,, to us if we’re stupid enough to believe him on taking away the ambulance chasers rice bowl.


14 posted on 09/09/2009 3:06:10 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Obama’s med malpractice reform....Refuse to pay for ‘extra “ tests, but keep tort lawyers in place. HA.

Who cares ..he can put in a “trigger’, or say whatever, and then they will sneak in stuff and vote in the middle of the night.


15 posted on 09/09/2009 3:06:17 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And Georgia ! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: MrLegalReform

Didn’t say he was going to do anything about tort reform, just that he was going to talk about it :-)


16 posted on 09/09/2009 3:06:17 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Want to work? Don't join a union. Want to make money and not work? Join a union.)
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To: La Lydia
I find it hard to believe he is going to throw the trial lawyers under the bus. I don’t care what he says. Nor do I believe the Democratic Congress will go along with throwing the trial lawyers under the bus.

Zero can afford to look like a big man on health care tort reform. Remember, he's got Cass Sunstein waiting in the wings. The trial lawyers will never have it so good.

17 posted on 09/09/2009 3:07:00 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: mainepatsfan

Zero likes lifting his middle finger, and we should respond in kind.


18 posted on 09/09/2009 3:07:06 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: MrLegalReform

Hussein’s historic pattern is to say what is necessary for the moment. He knows that we know they all know it means nothing.


19 posted on 09/09/2009 3:08:08 PM PDT by Jacquerie (The Forgotten Clause - (N)or prohibit the free exercise thereof -)
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To: GnuHere

What is TOTUS? Teleprompter Of The US?


20 posted on 09/09/2009 3:08:42 PM PDT by charmedone
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