2012 Medicare Debate: Baby Boomers At Center Of Issue

Republican­s' (like Peterslynn­) 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. 

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.
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