For once I must say I actually agree with Krauthammer. I think where we went wrong is by making health insurance inexorably linked to employer benefits. It’s done nothing but drag down American business and make us less competitive internationally.

Tort reform still seems like a strawman to me however. Most of the analysis I have read indicates that the cost of medical lawsuits only accounts for 2% of the cost of healthcare. Not saying that something doesn’t need to be done, but tort reform as one of the two major planks of healthcare reform isn’t going to be enough to control the spiraling costs.

Now if we could only get the GOP to make these same arguments in Congress, instead of sending crazed mobs of medicare recipients to storm town hall meetings.