No Health Care Reform Without Legal Reform (Sarah Palin)

Facebook ^ | 8/21/09 | Sarah Palin

[webschooner]

FReepers, if you have not already, join Facebook (if not already a member) to follow Sarah Palin, to 1) get her updates, and 2) to push her number of followers to make the peabrain heads of the Libtards in the Medjia and in The Beltway explode. I joined Facebook specifically to follow Palin.

Currently Sarah has 811,100 Facebook followers, and the number is growing by several thousand per day. Click here to go to Sarah's Facebook page.

[ari-freedom]

they choose because the tax system favors employer based health care instead of individual based insurance. Plus it is hard to get individual insurance here in NY because I can’t buy insurance out of state and there are very few options here. so if my employer doesn’t provide insurance (or unemployed) then it is hard to get any affordable insurance.

[r9etb]

There you go again. Palin is not claiming this is a new idea and I've yet to see anybody on this thread make the same claim.

You misunderstand, then.

Recall what the fellow claimed above, "the difference is that people are listening to [Sarah Palin]."

The general flavor of the comments in favor of this piece is that Sarah Palin's engagement on the issue has somehow transformed it into an issue with real traction, where before it had none.

That is quite obviously false, which what I have been trying to point out. Sarah Palin has "transformed" nothing -- it's an issue that people have been working on, with some success, for a long time; and she is not alone even among current politicians in calling for tort reform.

Her article certainly doesn't offer any new information; the only "new" thing about it is Sarah Palin's attempt to inject herself into the issue; perhaps she even intended for her devoted followers to anoint her as a "leader" on the topic.

[johncocktoasten]

Another point I would like to add.

The left has been spending this week trying to reframe (read weasel) the debate to “co-ops” and “split bills” to get healthcare passed.

Palin has managed, on a Friday, to re-shift debate thru the weekend to tort reform instead of whatever template the left wants.

[r9etb]

umm his profile says he’s a guy

John's not interested in facts.

[Republic]

Double sigh...:^) That was the entire point of the elephant in the room comment. Nothing new, just a huge important part of the health care debate that is being IGNORED! (So it might as well be new, :^) , THANK GOD Sarah is bringing these topics SMACK into the fray! God BLESS her! And all of the people around her. I LOVE her mind!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Absolutely spot on, and TOTALLY absent from the MSM “reporting”.

[r9etb]

was the entire point of the elephant in the room comment. Nothing new, just a huge important part of the health care debate that is being IGNORED!

If there's an elephant there at all, it must be a pink one.

Tort reform has not been ignored at all. Your comment is wrong.

[AFPhys]

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I do agree with you that 15million illegals are a big problem, potentially adding 15M/300million 5% to the cost of medical care- and THAT must be addressed in addition to health care.

However, you asking that we just have to take YOUR word for it that tort reform is not the answer? Sorry, Charlie.

I'd rather take the word of a very respected firm- an analysis by Price Waterhouse Cooper Accounting Firm, instead. They do not agree with your seat-of-the-pants dismissal.

[FreeReign]

Recall what the fellow claimed above, "the difference is that people are listening to [Sarah Palin]." The general flavor of the comments in favor of this piece is that Sarah Palin's engagement on the issue has somehow transformed it into an issue with real traction, where before it had none.

Well up to this point the issue unfortunately hasn't had good enough traction to get it done.

So here is Sarah tyring to use her influence to give it better traction.

I think that's a good thing. Don't you agree?

[johncocktoasten]

Well, you are the one attacking the motives of Palin supporters. I am trying to figure out where the jilted nature of your comments come from. Stating that a Palin supporter is “blinded by her backside” is pretty specious.

I see you are an Orbitologist. Maybe you don’t like Palin because you place a high weight on a politician knowing every detailed machination of government, and flaunting that knowledge to you before you will support them. I don’t know. Maybe you could share with us your line of thinking and where you’re coming from.

Or just continue with the insults.

[Republic]

Er, since there is no mention of TORT REFORM in the over ONE THOUSAND page house proposed health care debacle, I think even you might agree, with true honesty and good intent, that TORT REFORM WAS NOT ONLY IGNORED IN THE HEALTH CARE BILL, but it was TOTALLY IGNORED. Not one word about it...in all those pages. Geeeeeeee. I wonder why. It is the BIG (pink if you like) elephant in the room and Sarah brought it into the light. Good. Love the way she did that with the death panel and love the way she made TORT reform the topic in this article. Also LOVE the way she nailed uhbama on his giving our money to BRAZIL so that people there can drill off shore. Nice move, SARAH...keep using your popularity to bring the light to the stuff uhbama and his cabal are ignoring and shoving under the rug!!

(Are you listening to Rush now...he is talking about the death panel that is in writing in the veteran health care rules that President Bush cancelled and ol uhbama has RE-ENACTED. Pretty sick stuff!)

[Mojave]

Health care is no different than any other business, when you have a shortage of doctors and a massive influx of illegal aliens then you have the makings for high prices. Supply and demand are at work

An artificial shortage of doctors. Make the right to practice testing based rather than degree based. Require all existing doctors to re-qualify periodically.

[r9etb]

Well up to this point the issue unfortunately hasn't had good enough traction to get it done.

That's false. Ms. Palin herself cited several instances where it did have enough traction to be enacted into law ... without her help.

[taildragger]

This women is amazing. For a someone that has been caricatured as a character out of "Little Abner" she seems top have a grasp on medical/law technical speak much like she does on Energy.

But a bigger point . Her dominance of Facebook denotes her killer instinct to go around her adversaries to get her voice heard, probably like when she went around a taller adversary under a full court press. With the net, we get the rebroadcast of it. Much like Ronald Reagan she is starting to write prolifically on subjects. We will know where she stands when it is time for her to run, much like Reagan had incredible conservative "cred" so will she.

Wise, this one is.... no wonder they are trying to destroy her.......

[Will88]

Only a fraction of patients sue, and a much smaller fraction of plaintiffs win. Most cases are tossed at the MSJ stage, and most verdicts are in the doc’s favor.

All of that is really irrelevant. What is relevant is the amount each practicing physician must pay in premiums each year, and how much could be saved if malpractice claims were handled differently after tort reform. And, how much the cost of medical care might be reduced after reform lowered malpractice premiums.

[Jeffrey_D.]

Use Their Words Against Them !!!

[SueRae]

Well said Sarah!!! Lets see them debate on the FACTS!

[Carry_Okie]

Too bad she chose not to skewer the Democrats' incestuous relationship with the trial lawyers.

[FreeReign]

Well up to this point the issue unfortunately hasn't had good enough traction to get it done.

That's false. Ms. Palin herself cited several instances where it did have enough traction to be enacted into law... I>

Several instances accomplished doesn't mean that we don't need more of it. Ms. Palin herself cites what is still needed. I think that's a good thing. Are you suggesting that it isn't?

... without her help.

There you go again :).