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