Nope. She merely cites the law in her "own state of Alaska," but that particular law was passed in 1997.
# 2. While we have had some successes in some states, tort reform never got enough traction to actually stop frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits across all states in the country, nor did the successes for tort reform go far enough. The fight for tort reform is far from over.
And we didn't need Sarah Palin to tell us that ... in fact, George Bush made it a central part of his presidential agenda.
# 3. We are right now fighting against 0bama’s nasty healthcare bill. Tort reform is one of the biggest weapons to be used against 0bamacare, because the # 1 reason why health costs are super high in this country, is because of lawyers.
You've conflated two separate issues here, and that's a mistake.
Obama's nasty healthcare bill is indeed awful. It is horrendously irresponsible precisely because no attempt has been made to understand the causes of the problems (e.g., high cost) that it purports to be solving. It is based on ideology rather than facts, and that is why it should be opposed.
The second issue is as you say: to determine why health care costs are so very high, and to address those causes. Tort reform would certainly help to address that, but that's only a piece of a larger puzzle. Insurance itself tends to raise health care prices, in the form of increased overhead and reduction of market forces within the health care economy. This is a topic that needs to be addressed separately from any opposition to Obamacare.
# 4. The fact that others have fought for tort reform before in this country, doesn't mean Sarah Palin can't fight for tort reform at this time.
True -- and welcome aboard to her. The problem is that folks hereabouts seem to think that Sarah Palin's sudden arrival has transformed the battle; but it has not. She's late to the game, in fact.
Sarah Plain was born before 1997?
“And we didn't need Sarah Palin to tell us that ... in fact, George Bush made it a central part of his presidential agenda. “
You and who exactly?
Your pals from Daily Kos?
She is not telling you anything.
She is sending a strong message to 0bama, asking the pertinent questions about 0bamacare and tort reform that people like RNC Chair Michael Steel should have been asking since this 0bamacar battle started, and still haven't.
“. It is based on ideology rather than facts, and that is why it should be opposed”
Nope.
0bamacare should be opposed from all angles,including tackling specific issues in the bill,tort reform etc, not just opposed based one ideology alone.
” Insurance itself tends to raise health care prices, in the form of increased overhead and reduction of market forces within the health care economy”
Insurance companies are in direct competition with each other, and would drive prices down if and when the frivolous lawsuits and outrageous awards are eliminated or brought down sharply.
As it is, health insurance costs are just going to keep going up, so long as ambulance chasers like John Edwards are given free reign to suck the blood of Americans every day, with gargantuan awards.
“. The problem is that folks hereabouts seem to think that Sarah Palin’s sudden arrival has transformed the battle; but it has not. She's late to the game, in fact.”
No one in this thread has made the claim that Sarah Palin invented the fight for tort reform. You made that claim yourself, then answered it.
But that doesn't change the fact, that she has focused attention on the tort reform aspect of healthcare, more than anyone else has in this current fight against 0bamacare.
Why else would most of the media be quoting her on tort reform right now?
And why is this thread heading to probably over 200 posts already? You wouldn't even be on this thread if she hadn't attacked 0bamcare on tort reform.
More than likely, we are gonna get some 0bama regime creature come out and respond to this latest salvo from her, as they have on every single issue she has raised about 0bamacre, which will spread the tort reform issue of 0bamare even more.
Remember the “death panel” article? It didn't even take a week for 0bama himself to try and defend himself against it, aided by a massive Palin attack from the 0bamabit media, which only helped spread the “death panel” description even more.
Try getting that kind of reaction from any of our so-called current Republican “leaders”.