re: #252 PT Barnum

Tort reform is a red herring…

Costs in areas where tort reform has been enacted haven’t shown any significant drop in costs than where tort reform has not been enacted.

Using better case management tools to reduce readmissions, improving practices to reduce or eliminate rates of infection, improvement of medical health information IT have a much higher likelihood of reducing overall costs than tort reform.

Wow ,,, You have me convinced. One interview by the New York Times with one critic!
(even though above that you have bipartisan agreement “Senators Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, and John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, seemed to agree that medical malpractice lawsuits are driving up health care costs and should be limited in some way. “We’ve got to find some way of getting rid of the frivolous cases, and most of them are,” Mr. Hatch said. “And that’s doable, most definitely,” Mr. Kerry replied.)