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Old 11-17-2010, 08:24 PM
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Default also missing: tort reform

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Originally Posted by shakyjon View Post
Changing the healthcare system means just more than regulating insurance companies, which the healthcare bill failed to do. They need tighter regulation on the FDA, and a law needs passed that prohibit power brokers from influencing congressional voting. If they got rid of the lobbyists, they can then start on the partisan bullcrap that plagues this country. George Washington himself warned against political parties. Now we know why.
Part of any reform must include tort reform. Absent, of course, from the huge healthcare bill passed...too many lawyers, both sides, don't want this, they both profit from medical malpractice claims. And lawyers are some of the best lobbyists and have no problem getting their voices heard.
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