Why should trial lawyers inhibit Congress from doing tort reform?

[jomei69]

Depending on the numbers you use, malpractice insurance costs $100 - $300 billion in insurance and legal costs and "defensive testing" because, as Howard Dean said in a rare moment of honesty, "Congress doesn't want to take on the Trial Lawyers because they are a major "constituency" for the dems...

WTF!!! TRIAL LAWYERS! How about getting the f*cking trial lawyers OUT of legislation!

0bamacare proponents LOVE Canadian and UK government healthcare... How about a couple of facts -

Canadian lawsuits max $300k for pain and suffering - US - UNLIMITED

UK - Loser pays if lawsuit is proved false. Oh, and they have 1/10 of the lawsuits as the US...

Should limited liability and loser pays be incorporated in US law BEFORE 0bamacare is even considered?

[burdett]

This is how ambulance chasers get wealthy !

[rumford]

Conservatives think everything else should be a state issue. Why should this not be?

[avikar76]

Because Democrat politicians are addicted to their money.

[jaren12]

Trial lawyers are looking after the 1/3 of judgements that come from winning tort cases.

[egann]

Several states have already tried tort reform, and it hasn't worked. It hasn't brought down the cost of insurance for patients or employers, it hasn't brought down costs for doctors. All it has done is brought up the profits of the insurance company.

What kind of idiot would want to take something that has been done in several states, and failed, and apply it at a national level?

[galvin]

They are the largest contributors to the Democratic party.

[banys]

Let's just do away with the court system. Then there would be no need for any lawyers.

[yehudi]

Let's just do away with the court system. Then there would be no need for any lawyers.

There are no legitimate studies that show that malpractice lawsuits are what drives up costs, while there are numerous studies that show it doesn't; http://washingtonindependent.com/55535/tort-reform-unlikely-to-cut-health-care-costs
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/would-tort-reform-lower-health-care-costs/

[taryn31]

ABSOLUTELY....you hit the nail on the head, your point is 100 % correct, stop with the mal practice BS it costs billions, then we will have much much cheaper health care and then we can decide where to go from there.

Obama is a lawyer too and is very beholden the the ABA...unfortunately.

MY brother, a GP pays 220 k a year for malpractice ins. and he is ONLY a GP, works at least 100 hours a week, still owes student loans .....