Let me guess. Tax cuts and health savings accounts. Great ideas for people who have very little income and very little savings. And, the insurance companies can still keep jacking up their premiums and deductibles.

Piss me off. Second time. Two points:

1. The repuke bill should be labeled the death bill. Why can't dems get up to speed on marketing. Grayson is the only one and dems should be copying his lead. Over 100 americans die each day due to a lack of healthcare. Get with the program dems and sell the reform.

2. I am sooo sick and tired of the malpractice reform BULLSHIT. Malpractice damage awards are miniscule compared to the money stolen by the criminal insurance industry through the fraud perpetrated by them. Also, many, many states already have malpractice reform that drastically cut back on damage awards and what happened? Malpractice premiums went up and continue to go up. It is a pathetic red herring.

When are they going to submit it to the CBO?

If the Dems would be interested in rebutting the bogus tort reform argument, I'd be more than happy to cite sources for them.

http://www.insurance-reform.org/issues/MedMalSystemCostsFactSheet2009F.html

Medical malpractice claims and premiums are a tiny percentage of the total costs of health care in this country.

* Medical malpractice payouts are less than one percent of total U.S. health care costs. All “losses” (verdicts, settlements, legal fees, etc.) have stayed under one percent for the last 18 years. Moreover, medical malpractice premiums are less than one percent of total U.S. health care costs as well. Dropping for nearly two decades, malpractice premiums have stayed below one percent of health care costs. Americans for Insurance Reform, “Think Malpractice is Driving Up Health Care Costs? Think Again,” http://www.insurance-reform.org/pr/AIRhealthcosts.pdf.

* The Congressional Budget Office found that “Malpractice costs account for less than 2 percent of [health care] spending.” Congressional Budget Office, Limiting Tort Liability for Medical Malpractice 1, 6 (Jan. 8, 2004).

It might be too much work for them, though, to check with their own CBO. Best to let the myth gain credibility by sitting around unchallenged forever.

I'll go you one better . . .

California has had medical malpractice tort reform for 37 years and it ain't done squat to lower prices. It's been good to protect medical hacks and quacks... And I know what I'm talking about when it comes to quacks.

~OGD~