BlazerFan11
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Howard Dean: No healthcare tort reform because Dems afraid to "take on" trial lawyers
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/27/vi...imidating/
Quote:A moment of clarity from Howard Dean, courtesy of CNS News, who took this video at the town-hall forum of Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA). When an angry constituent wondered why a supposedly comprehensive “reform” of the health-care system doesn’t include tort reform to lower costs of malpractice insurance and reduce defensive medicine, Dean responds as “a doctor and a politician.” Apparently, neither has the courage to face the trial-lawyer lobby:
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, a medical doctor who served as governor of Vermont, said at a town hall meeting on Tuesday night that Democrats in Congress did not include tort reform in the health care bill because they were fearful of “taking on” the trial lawyers.
“This is the answer from a doctor and a politician,” said Dean. “Here is why tort reform is not in the bill. When you go to pass a really enormous bill like that the more stuff you put in, the more enemies you make, right? And the reason why tort reform is not in the 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 is the plain and simple truth. Now, that’s the truth.”
Yes, that is the truth. Instead of taking on trial lawyers in an honest attempt to lower actual costs, the Democrats have decided to demonize insurers — who have incentives in place to keep costs low — and doctors. I wonder how Dean feels about Barack Obama’s attempts to paint physicians as greedy Tonsil Vultures and Foot Rustlers? In those instances, I’m pretty sure Dean responds as a politician instead of a doctor.
Malpractice tort abuse doesn’t create all of the unnecessary costs in health care, but it causes a significant portion of them. Any attempt at a comprehensive reform without tackling that area makes the entire effort look like political maneuvering for other purposes than real reform and cost control. At the very least, it makes the Democrats look rather craven — as Dean himself admits.
(This post was last modified: 08-27-2009 04:54 PM by BlazerFan11.)
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RE: Howard Dean: No healthcare tort reform because Dems afraid to "take on" trial lawyers
Plus Trial Lawyers are the top Special Interest Lobbying group to the DNC
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RE: Howard Dean: No healthcare tort reform because Dems afraid to "take on" trial lawyers
(09-21-2009 10:14 AM)GGniner Wrote: Plus Trial Lawyers are the top Special Interest Lobbying group to the DNC
And the insurance industry is the top special interest group to the Republicans which is why they want nothing to change. He was correct it comes down to politics-but on both sides.
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RE: Howard Dean: No healthcare tort reform because Dems afraid to "take on" trial lawyers
(09-21-2009 10:14 AM)GGniner Wrote: Plus Trial Lawyers are the top Special Interest Lobbying group to the DNC
And the insurance industry is the top special interest group to the Republicans which is why they want nothing to change. He was correct it comes down to politics-but on both sides.
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RE: Howard Dean: No healthcare tort reform because Dems afraid to "take on" trial lawyers
(09-21-2009 10:14 AM)GGniner Wrote: Plus Trial Lawyers are the top Special Interest Lobbying group to the DNC
Correct--and campaign contributors
It's commonly known as "not biting the hand that feeds you".....
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RE: Howard Dean: No healthcare tort reform because Dems afraid to "take on" trial lawyers
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Yeah, I have mentioned this a couple of times since I head Dean say this.
Dean may be a blithering idiot and drooling buffoon, but he hit this one on the head with a pile driver.
What say you Robert ?????????????????????
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RE: Howard Dean: No healthcare tort reform because Dems afraid to "take on" trial lawyers
How committed to getting a Health Care bill passed are you, if you ignore the #1 thing that makes Healthcare so ineffective, inefficient, expensive and wasteful. Not to mention Obama says it has to be deficit neutral. That is by far and away the biggest boldest lie ever told to the American people. Therefore ObamaCare will go down the political grave like an airplane arguing in from 50,000 feet.
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