re: #343 moderatelyradicalliberal

I’m a Texan who works at a health care clinic so I’ll answer. 25% of uninsured people going to ERs for medical care and Medicaid patients being handed over to privately run HMOs. Many of those Medicaid patients couldn’t get Medicaid until they were poor enough or already chronically ill. Tort reform was sold to Texas as something that would lower medical malpractice costs for doctors and intern lower medical costs and insurance premiums for patients. That did not happen. It was great for doctors and HMOs and terrible for hospitals and patients.

why anybody would think that “tort reform” is anything more than restricting the ability of victims to protect themselves is beyond me

if conservatives believe in the operation of the free market to weed out bad operators, why would they endorse a policy that just uses intrusive government to protect these bad operators?