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GOP-Proposed Tort Reform Would Reduce Health Care Costs (but Obama is just giving it lip service)
fox news ^ | 3/3/2010 | Jim Angle

Posted on 03/03/2010 6:54:41 PM PST by tobyhill

President Obama is taking a small step on one issue, malpractice lawsuit reform, that Republicans believe is an easy way to reduce health care costs.

Obama's latest proposal "incorporates the best ideas from Democrats and Republicans, including some of the ideas that Republicans offered during the health care summit, like funding state grants on medical malpractice reform," Obama said this week.

The president agrees with medical profession that defensive medicine, doctors ordering unnecessary tests to protect themselves, is pushing up the cost of health care.

"The courts are clogged up with these cases, physicians are afraid of being hauled into court and as a result order tests they ordinarily would not order," said Dr. Cecil Wilson of American Medical Association.

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1 posted on 03/03/2010 6:54:41 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

obama would never cross lawyers. tort reform is a non-starter.


2 posted on 03/03/2010 6:55:24 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (yeah, you can quote me.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Not without a big quid pro quo.


3 posted on 03/03/2010 6:56:28 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: the invisib1e hand

He’s going to give $25 million to “study” the idea.


4 posted on 03/03/2010 6:58:56 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: the invisib1e hand
obama would never cross lawyers. tort reform is a non-starter.

What is it about an 800 pound rampaging Gorilla in the room that is invisible to him and Dems?

Paging Mr. Edwards, Esq to the courtesy phone ......

5 posted on 03/03/2010 7:07:27 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: tobyhill; freekitty; Nachum; MamaDearest; 2ndDivisionVet; RobinMasters; nutmeg; sheik yerbouty; ...

He’s declared WAR upon the American people and he’s shooting us the finger!


6 posted on 03/03/2010 7:14:53 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: tobyhill

Get rid of the excessive lawyer tax on health care then health care will get much cheaper.


7 posted on 03/03/2010 7:20:01 PM PST by CORedneck
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To: tobyhill
"He’s going to give $25 million to “study” the idea."

What a fraud. Obama is showing himself to be an irrelevant blowhard. Maybe he caught the disease from Joe Biden. What the President says is usually unreliable. Heaven help us, and save us from our Sycophantic Suck-Up Press Corps.

Or is that our "Sycophantic Suck-Up Press Corpse?"

8 posted on 03/03/2010 7:21:57 PM PST by cookcounty (Let us not speak of the honor of men. Rather, let us bind them with the Constitution. --Jefferson)
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To: tobyhill
Obama is just giving it lip service.

I'd photsshop that, but I'd get banned.

9 posted on 03/03/2010 7:36:05 PM PST by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain OnTheDress)
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To: tobyhill
But a liberal think tank found the some states have already tried such reforms and that expanding them nationally would reap massive savings.

States have enacted tort reform because it's a STATE issue. Someone show me where the Constitution gives the fedgov the power to regulate STATE CIVIL courts.

10 posted on 03/03/2010 7:37:38 PM PST by Huck (Q: How can you tell a party is in the majority? A: They're complaining about the fillibuster.)
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To: CORedneck

It’s not just excessive test. It’s giving generic meds that don’t work as well and require extra testing that is also driving up cost. Bad reactions to meds that should never have made it past the FDA approval that put people in the hospital, and infections from the hospitals that keep them there extra days. My son-in-law nearly died of a staff infection from a back operation. A friend nearly died when they did a heart cath and ruptured the vein. All required additional time in the hospital and additional doctor visits.

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.

Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543

Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121

Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!

OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010

Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts

SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2462963/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html

This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries

Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

Snip

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.


11 posted on 03/03/2010 7:39:23 PM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: the invisib1e hand
tort reform is a non-starter.

No it isn't. Most states have it already. What's a non-starter is FEDERAL tort reform, which is fine by me. I still don't get why conservatives are so anxious to federalize state civil courts. It would seem conservatives trust the federal government more than a jury of their peers. Sad. And anyway, I don't see where the feds derive the power to regulate state civil courts.

12 posted on 03/03/2010 7:39:47 PM PST by Huck (Q: How can you tell a party is in the majority? A: They're complaining about the fillibuster.)
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To: tobyhill

The boy better do something. The commie ‘RATS have convinced everyone in this country that healthcare is “a right.” Once the ‘RATS try to ration that “right” with ObamaCare, the freeloaders and their lawyers will be scoring lawsuits against the government, BIG TIME! You can’t ration “rights”.


13 posted on 03/03/2010 7:47:01 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If you liked 2009, you're going to LOVE 2010!!!!!)
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To: tobyhill
I have a question.

My youngest son is a scholar's scholar. Over more years than I can remember he's never brought anything home with less than a perfect grade. He's got so many scholarships that he's basically being paid handsomely to get his undergrad degree (he's a National Merit Scholar). In addition to being brilliant he has a heart of pure gold. The Christmas when the tsunami hit Indonesia, without saying a word to anyone he quietly donated all the Christmas money he had received as gifts from family members to the tsunami victims.

And today he is a pre-med student in college - studying diligently every night. When he can he's volunteering at the local emergency room.

So, in short, he's going to be exactly the type of physician that any one of us would desperately want during a time of medical crisis.

My question is, in what country should I recommend he start his medical practice?

14 posted on 03/04/2010 3:34:25 AM PST by The Duke
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To: The Duke
If he can, right after his residency requirements end. Bail, get out and move to Texas where he won't face the highest cost of malpractice insurance. Don't accept Medicare or Medicaid.
I know a doctor that cost $90 for a visit, $160 for visit plus bloodwork and he gives lots of samples. The only thing is that he doesn't take insurance but he will also let you pay it out if you can't afford all the bill at once.
15 posted on 03/04/2010 3:46:10 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Thanks for that suggestion.


16 posted on 03/04/2010 3:48:38 AM PST by The Duke
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To: Huck
What's a non-starter is FEDERAL tort reform,

Ah, worthy point.

17 posted on 03/04/2010 12:34:47 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (yeah, you can quote me.)
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