Obama Clarifies Position on Tort Reform on “60 Minutes”

In his speech before Congress last week, President Obama attempted to win Republican support for his health care overhaul by agreeing to consider including medical malpractice reform in his plan. In an interview that aired on CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday the president shed some more light on what he meant — and in which form he will not accept tort reform. (Read the transcript of the president’s interview here.)

Mr. Obama on Sunday clarified that he is so far not willing to consider capping malpractice judgments, a reform proposal consistently put forward by Republicans.

/in other words, he’s not really serious about tort reform, it was just lip service