>> A national report released Wednesday says the 2003 Texas law that limited damage awards in malpractice suits has caused health care spending to rise and has not significantly increased the number of doctors in Texas.
The report comes as Gov. Rick Perry has touted the benefits of the law on the presidential campaign trail, boasting that it has added 21,000 Texas doctors — a claim the report disputes. Supporters of the law also urged Congress to enact a similar provision for the nation as part of the federal health care law that passed in March 2010. That provision was not included. <<
Are conservative theories on Tort Reform being discredited by reality?
(Then again, aren't conservatives ALWAYS being discredited by reality?)
This is from my city's newspaper, and is the source; do read it:
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/report-texas-tort-law-has-failed-to-reduce-1910690.html
smsmith500
So tell me how the trillion dollar Obama care is any better? The reality is that the cost of medical care is going up because of Obama care not in spite of it.
STONE COLD SAID SO
The problem is a lack of competition. They should allow people to buy insurance over state lines, and break up the strangleholds that drug companies have over the USA. I can go to Mexico across the border in Tijuana and buy the same medications as a fraction of the cost.
Picture healthcare like a wagon full of people. Obamacare essentially forces everyone to have healthcare. Slowly you start to see that wagon get weighed down. Plus what about all those people who don't work? Something like 47% don't even pay any income taxes. Where do you think the money for their Obamacare costs is going to come from?
Independent Thinker
It worked well in Indiana they passed the law in 1975 and have a far longer track record than Texas.
mbcorson2000
that article contained no facts one way or the other. it was an opinion piece about an unofficial report.
Red neck
ObamaCare is so brilliant and so wonderful that trade unions and companies friendly to the president are fleeing it by the thousands. In fact, Obama's health care plan is so desirable that 20% of the exemptions have gone to Nancy Pelosi's posh district in San Francisco.
just spend another trillion
so how is obamacare gonna fix it?
yoou know obama himself just pulled part of his own HC law right?
Frankie M
Lawsuits do add to the costs of health-care.
Smells like New Screen Names
Big government intervening in the most sacred of Anglo-Saxon traditions, the jury trial.
Free men and women sitting in judgement, applying the law to disputes.
Tort reform is nothing but taking power from a jury of peers and giving it to judges and politicians.
Taking power from the people, and giving it to one man, a functionary. A practice borrowed from the despots of the middle-east and Rome.
Ou812 The Hate Returns
I'm surprised I have to explain this to you.
First, it is one source. How do you know they are telling the total, unbiased truth? That would be like me saying "Fox News says so! It's a FACT!"
Next, if it is even remotely true it can be explained really easy. IT IS JUST ONE STATE. Insurance companies pool claims and premiums from all states making it an almost flaccid attempt at changing something.
Imagine if Tort Reform was spread across the country or if the insurance industry ONLY insured Dr.'s from Texas?
Urbain Grandier
As a conservative you raise my favorite point about healthcare costs, supply and demand.
No system, public or private, will work if we do not increase the amount of doctors and facilities to drive down their prices and workload. Any system will work with a bountiful supply. The -isms are moot. The shortage of doctors does not have to do with malpractice, but with education of the population. There are many potential doctors who never get to go to school. Education is prohibitively expensive.
Tort reform was always a weak argument. It was only foisted as a counter-proposal to Obamacare. Tort reform is needed, but for different reasons as it never would increase the supply of doctors. It's not really an employment issue as much as it is an insurance matter. It's the insurance companies that want tort reform.
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