Why does Obama-Care protect Trial Lawyers Income and drive up the need for "defensive Medicine" costs?

[oz]

This is from DEMOCRAT Howard Dean !

Asked by an audience member why the legislation does nothing to cap medical malpractice class-action lawsuits against doctors and medical institutions (aka "Tort reform"), Dean responded by saying: “The reason tort reform is not in the [health care] bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers in addition to everybody else they were taking on. And that’s the plain and simple truth,”

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Dean-says-Obamacare-authors-dont-want-to-challenge-trial-lawyers-55140567.html#ixzz13IxwX9Q0

Dean is a former physician, so he knows about skyrocketing medical malpractice insurance rates, and the role of the trial lawyers in fueling the "defensive medicine" approach among medical personnel who order too many tests and other sometimes unneeded procedures "just to be sure" and to protect themselves against litigation.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Dean-says-Obamacare-authors-dont-want-to-challenge-trial-lawyers-55140567.html#ixzz13Iy64Ae5

Top Recipients of Trial Lawyer Associations Campaign Donations ( 2009-2010 )

(D) Sen Harry Reid - 2.6 Million
(D) Charles Schumer - 2.0 Million
Gillibrand, Kirsten (D-NY) - 1.7 Million
Crist, Charlie (D-I-FL) 1.5 Million
Coakley, Martha (D-MA) 1.3 Million
Specter, Arlen (D-PA) 1.1 Million
Giannoulias, Alexander (D-IL) 1.0 Million
Boxer, Barbara (D-CA) 1.0 Million
Carnahan, Robin (D-MO) 954k
Meek, Kendrick B (D-FL) 937k

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=k01

Over 14 Million to the first ten.. ALL DEMOCRATS

Does it really get any clearer than that?

[wardell]

Regardless of what Howard Dean said, I think that the emphasis on tort reform is wrong. Tort reform disadvantages the victims of medical malpractice. The states that have instituted tort reform have also not demonstrated any lowering of health care costs. Sensible limits to jury awards can be imposed by the courts without resorting to the more drastic limits that tort reform has implemented, especially when people are grievously and irreversibly injured through pure carelessness or gross neglect of basic standards.

The insurance companies and many doctors are happier with tort reform though. Howard Dean is a doctor, by the way.

[gowan]

Tort Reform Unlikely to Cut Health Care Costs
Studies Show Malpractice Awards Are Not Big Driver of Skyrocketing Costs
http://washingtonindependent.com/55535/tort-reform-unlikely-to-cut-health-care-costs

[hrafn]

wat is a lawyer at the bottom of a lake? a good start...

opt out a democrat in NOvember 2010

vote for freedom

and send a message to the democrats that the slaves are in rebellion

[jordi]

Because the majority of Congressman and the president are lawyers, duh. And as you said, lawyers give a lot of money.

[ezri]

I had the exact same problem recently. Play it safe and click on www.lawyersearchhouse.tk

[bean]

There is no such thing as a perfect solution.

[marmion]

No,

The is no such thing as Obama-Care.

[werner72]

It's been documented many times that legal costs are less than 5% of insurance company costs.
That hardly justifies them doubling and tripling rates these past years.
Legal awards have been CAPPED at 250K in California for many years now, and it hasn't made their rates GO DOWN AT ALL!!! In fact they're still among the highest in the Country.