Sadly lawyers have paid our government to make adoption so convoluted that it requires huge sums to be paid to lawyers, pricing adoption out of the question for most of the middle class. The government doesn’t care about you or kids, kids are just another prop for their reelection campaign.
I think the reason tort reform is left out is because it takes away the rights of the patient. Yes, there is fraud, but in true cases of malpractice, the patient or family has to deal with the effects of the malpractice plus the lawsuit already. Removing that protection can end up with a case needing to meet qualifications A through X before it can go to trial, leaving many valid cases unheard and allowing healthcare facilities to lower standards because they only need to “meet the minimum” to avoid lawsuits. Doctors are not the issue here, but the administrators, whose job it is to see a hospital turn a profit. Adding something to a general healthcare reform bill is not the place for this – it is a legal issue that should be reformed in a seperate bill.Currently, the states have control of this. Ask your state senators and representatives to change their laws. If the trend is towards reform, then the federal government may follow.
ObamaCare in all its thousands of pages doesn’t have a single provision to eliminate or control tort fraud, which is the biggest source of medical cost inflation."Pure fiction. Malpractice lawsuits account for less than 2% of medical costs. You’re comment also makes it sound like there are no legitimate lawsuits against doctors.
Unfortunately, “the people” don’t really do a good job of it either. Witness all the state propositions that, once passed, are easily shot down because they’re unconstitutional.
jonesb about 11 years ago
Sadly lawyers have paid our government to make adoption so convoluted that it requires huge sums to be paid to lawyers, pricing adoption out of the question for most of the middle class. The government doesn’t care about you or kids, kids are just another prop for their reelection campaign.
Fourcrows about 11 years ago
I think the reason tort reform is left out is because it takes away the rights of the patient. Yes, there is fraud, but in true cases of malpractice, the patient or family has to deal with the effects of the malpractice plus the lawsuit already. Removing that protection can end up with a case needing to meet qualifications A through X before it can go to trial, leaving many valid cases unheard and allowing healthcare facilities to lower standards because they only need to “meet the minimum” to avoid lawsuits. Doctors are not the issue here, but the administrators, whose job it is to see a hospital turn a profit. Adding something to a general healthcare reform bill is not the place for this – it is a legal issue that should be reformed in a seperate bill.Currently, the states have control of this. Ask your state senators and representatives to change their laws. If the trend is towards reform, then the federal government may follow.
Uncle Joe Premium Member about 11 years ago
ObamaCare in all its thousands of pages doesn’t have a single provision to eliminate or control tort fraud, which is the biggest source of medical cost inflation."Pure fiction. Malpractice lawsuits account for less than 2% of medical costs. You’re comment also makes it sound like there are no legitimate lawsuits against doctors.
kamwick about 11 years ago
Unfortunately, “the people” don’t really do a good job of it either. Witness all the state propositions that, once passed, are easily shot down because they’re unconstitutional.
Michael Peterson Premium Member about 11 years ago
Yeah. I was thinking, “If the Christian Taliban get their way, more women will have to go to back alley butchers like this guy.”