I say again since it bears repeating that there actually is need for medical reform in this country... it’s just that the reforms we actually need, starting with major kinds of tort reform, do not resemble obungacare at all. The four or five things we need are things which TR called “Trust Busting”, and would be simple and inexpensive to implement.
Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean said at a Townhall meeting: “The reason that tort reform is not in the bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers. . . . And that is the plain and simple truth.”
The simple truth is that trial lawyers wrote the bill along with labor unions, health insurers and pharmaceutical makers. The end product is a Rube Goldberg contraption that will collapse under its own weight and drag the economy down with it. As you say, the beginning of a solution is incremental legislation on tort reform, removing state barriers to the health insurance market, health care savings accounts, etc.