The House and Senate are both repuke controlled, yes?

[Deja Q]

http://www.georgewbush.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=2686

I believe this is a national issue because it runs up the cost of medicine for national budgets. The Medicare budget goes up, the Medicaid budget goes up, the veterans' health care system costs go up. And we need a -- and we need law coming out of Washington to make medical liability reform the law of the land. It passed the House; it's stuck in the Senate. (Applause.)

So it's stalled in the Senate. The republican-majority one. So why are they clapping?

The whole article is a laugh except it isn't funny.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. "obstructionist democrats" are blocking the bill

And those obstructionists are the only thing keeping our country out of the unprecedented 13th circle of hell.

[iamjoy]

2. What's Next

Must admit, I'm torn on the whole issue of medical liability, but if they start capping that - what is next? Product liability? As it is, we have companies cutting corners, compromising safety because they know the fines for getting caught are outweighed by the profits they can make not following the rules. But companies must also weigh this with the costs of torts from a civil suit.

Now imagine if tort reform were applied to all types of businesses, not just medicine. There would be a lot more Pintos on the road, for one.

And what if the auto insurance companies got caps claiming it would help keep premiums lower? Before you know it some bozo could be driving drunk and...

Where would it stop?

[Deja Q]

3. And we know that a law once made gets perverted in every way imaginable...

DMCA. It's been perverted way out of proportion, but all sorts of examples can be found on the net.

Ditto for the Patriot Act, it's been abused too.

Same for most laws made.

"tort reform" will only give corporate america free reign on product quality, if it can then still be called "quality" because it won't.

Our government, if it wants to put the brakes on outrageous rewards, must also deal with the outrageous entities who do a crappy job with products and services. Otherwise it is anything but "fair and balanced"... (beware of people who use the phrase "fair and balanced", it generally means the concept they are applying it to is anything BUT fair or balanced. Except me, compared to the sleaze and walking/talking human excrement in power, I'm almost ethical!)

[w13rd0]

4. Isn't it hilarious that those that cry loudest...

...for "smaller government" are the first to rangle up a team of high priced lawyers and lobbyists to get their will encoded into law? Ok, it's not funny, it's sad. Bunch of liars and crooks.