re: #163 drcordell

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.

Good point.

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.

So the millions of dollar awards, and the required by states malpractice sometimes costing upwards of 200,000 per year for certain specialites amounts to 2% of health care costs? Gonna need a link for that.

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.

Crazed mobs of medicare recipients sent by the GOP? Where do you get this?