Health Care: Give the People What They Want

There were other alternatives such as tort reform, readily available prior to revamping the whole healthcare system.

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Republicans' push for tort reform has always been a red herring. The cost of malpractice to the health care system is miniscule, and even at that, it covers only a tiny portion of the harm inflicted on patients by a system designed to produce profit, not good results. 

What malpractice suits there are are due to regulatory failure and previous tort reform that have allowed corporations to make as much money as they want without concern for consumers' safety.

Before any medical malpractice case even gets to most courts, for judges not to throw it out of court, it must be reviewed by physician panels. When even the board-certified peers of doctors being sued think a patient has a case, then Republicans' pushing tort reform must have an ulterior motive. 

What could it be?

It's two ulterior motives, actually. 

One is that what tort reform would prevent is discovery. Discovery, the process by which lawyers can legally pierce and penetrate the Corporate veil and learn the dirty little secrets about how that Corporation has operated. 

The other is that lawyers, both individually and in professional association, tend to donate more money to Democrats. Republicans would love to stop that flow of bucks.

Citizens of the US have little enough voice and power in this democracy without eliminating one of the last methods for seeking legal redress and remedies for ourselves.
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