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VR-I agree, r9 missed the point. LOL! I do that myself, often!

I so agree that she strikes like a viper going after prey, and hits it home because of her clarity and because she is not beholden to anybody. I LOVE IT!

Her paragraph about the percentage of doctors who are sued is JUST HORRIFIC.

And with NO TORT REFORM in 1000 pages, who is going to control what universal health care costs all of us, are our tax dollars going to used to pay off lawyers and health care goes into the tank?

ALready posted under thread about tort reform...she has a killer paragraph in her writing about the percentage of doctors who are sued each year in specialty practices (not even including family practice or internists). Something like ONE HALF of all neurosurgeons are sued EACH YEAR. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? And ONE THIRD of ALL orthopaedic surgeons, ONE THIRD of all EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTORS are SUED EACH YEAR!!!!!!!!!! EACH YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And those arseholes in DC did NOT INCLUDE TORT REFORM, or LEGAL REFORM in any of the ONE THOUSAND PAGES of their COMMUNIST HEALTH CARE MANIFESTO....NOT ONE SENTENCE IS DEVOTED TO REFORMING THE HORRIFIC FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS THAT HAVE CAUSED MEDICAL COSTS TO SKYROCKET.

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she has a killer paragraph in her writing about the percentage of doctors who are sued each year in specialty practices

Note: she didn't write that paragraph. She's quoting somebody else's work.

It's nice that Ms. Palin is doing a little research -- or somebody is doing it for her -- but let's not pretend that she's offering anything that we haven't read before.

California has some of the most restrictive tort reform for medical malpractice litigation, and the last I looked medical costs in the state are still through the roof. Tort reform is not the answer; litigation is a bogeyman issue used by insurance companies to drive up premiums.

Now, covering the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and the millions of uninsured legal immigrants? That's an issue that should be at the forefront of the argument because ER visits for runny noses have drastically cut the effectiveness of emergency medicine for true emergencies and has increased the cost of health care exponentially.