Do you think that if Obama's healthcare plan included Tort reform, Republicans would get behind it?

Question

First off, this is for intelligent discussion only. Anyone who wishes to contribute to panicky, doomsday speech, or hateful comments, please end your existence first. In the event you can still log on Yahoo Answers, by all means, fire away.

Also talk of internationalizing competition of healthcare companies has been proposed. I'm a fan of Obama's plan, Tort reform, and this idea, but wanted some outside perspectives. Thanks!

Answer 1

No. Tort reform is a convenient cover for the Republicans. If they truly wanted tort reform, they have had ample opportunities in the past to pass it.



Individual states have passed such reform and put caps on medical and other civil judgments.,

Answer 2

Tort reform has already been implemented in many states and it has had no impact at all on medical costs or malpractice insurance costs. The notion that people are making money from frivolous suits isn't true. It is very difficult to bring a lawsuit against a doctor or hospital unless you have a lot of evidence and witnesses.



Tort reform has been a red herring for a long time and it accomplishes nothing. All it does it take options away from those who suffer from genuine malpractice.



Every other industrialized nation has managed to get medical costs under control and create a decent healthcare system that everyone can access. So what is the problem with America?



The obvious solution is also the simplest. Expand what we have that works. Medicare works, in spite of the claims that it is going broke, it works. If we expanded it to allow younger and healthier people to buy into the plan, it would be in better financial shape. At the same time, younger people who are profitable for insurance companies, could be buying into medicare and helping support that system instead of paying for insurance company profits.



This is a no-brainer. We have health care systems in the world that work. All we have to do is model one of them.



I do not believe Republicans will get behind any of Obama's proposals. They are not interested in doing it for the good of the country, and they have no reason to do it. If they were interested in doing anything, they would have acted long ago. They didn't.



If Obama fails, they win. If healthcare gets passed and it is a success, they fail.



Nothing will make Republicans get behind healthcare reform.

Answer 3

I wouldn't. If he supports tort reform, he should propose it as stand alone legislation. Adding it to one of the current bills would make a bad bill only slightly better, but still bad. Tort reform would save money which is needed since this country is basically broke.



Also, if Obama knows how to eliminate $60 Billion a year in Medicare and Medicaid fraud and waste he should do that immediately via executive order and not even wait for a bill to pass. I can't imagine anyone objecting to that. Do you?



BTW, Obama doesn't have a health care plan, and hasn't endorsed any specific legislation either.

Answer 4

Actually getting rid of the current health care proposal, and having a new bill wrote up that has less pages would be good. This current proposal has all kinds of crap hidden in it, including strengthening the IRS, which was weakened in 1998. They want to sneak that legislation right now so they can go after all these Swiss bank accounts, without pause. They also want to go back to days before 1998 (The 1998 IRS Reform Act) when the IRS could do whatever they wanted, and ruined many lives by taking their property, tapping out their bank accounts, and putting them in jail without a fair trial. A few Republicans have actually taken excruciating time to hire someone to, or read it for themselves, and passed the info to everybody else who cares (mostly Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats, and those afraid of their voters), and whose not a Obama Kool-aid drinker. If there is a health care proposal, it should only include a few things:

1) Tort Reform (in which the Trial Lawyers Association is lobbying to prevent)...

2) Allowing health insurance companies to compete across state lines..

3) Have a private Co-op (not public option) that is supervised (not controlled) by USA which SEIU and ACORN are against.

4) Tax deductions for health care



But NO! Obama and his Kool-Aid drinkers think that The Trial Lawyers Association, SEIU, and ACORN are more important!!!!!

Answer 5

Tort expenditure accounts for less than 2% of the total health care costs in America. Leave to Republicans to create a mountain out of a mole hill as reasoning to not reform health care. This is what they do on basically every issue.

Answer 6

Like anything else - "it depends".



I seriously doubt that the GOP would support any health care bill that has the so called "public option" i.e, Government Takeover of Health Care, even if it had tort reform.



Then there are still issues with Medicare cuts ($500 Billion), lack of market access (forbidding interstate sale of health insurance), lack or insurance portability, and forcing people onto insurance against their will.



Finally - I seriously doubt that Democrats would support comprehensive and enforceable tort reform and turn their back on all the money the trial lawyers give almost exclusively to them. Trial lawyers have and will continue to be a Democrat piggy bank.

Answer 7

We have already got the suited immigration coverage contained in the international. We settle for human beings on a regular basis from everywhere. The "reform" isn't a reform that's an open cost ticket. maximum international locations computer screen the emigrants so they don't settle for murderers and pedophiles and different undesirable factor. The reform does away with this. united statesa. would not want an open door coverage through fact we'd desire to settle for good human beings not the scum different international locations reject. If we modify our immigration coverage we'd desire to consistently undertake Canada's or Costa Rica's or maybe New Zealand's immigration rules.

Answer 8

Some already support the plan but the problem is the liberals when polls say 53% are against . It sure the hell is not all Republicans did the liberals not have us down to 25% of the voting public about 6 months ago.

Answer 9

It will take a very secure politician to buck the powers that be in the Republican Party right now. Every time a conservative talks compromise he is immediately attacked by the Limbites, Hannitites and the NRA. The moderates have quit in droves. Some, like Mel Martinez, were so embarrassed they quit before their terms were up.

Answer 10

No, because there will still be other issues they disagree with. Besides, trial lawyers are one of the biggest contributors to Democrat campaigns



That is why I feel they should keep each method of reducing costs in separate bills.



Pass two or three, wait and see the effects and further legislate if needed.



Unfortunately, they won't do that either because, for the Democrats; it is not about health care but about more Government access and control over our private lives.

Answer 11

Republicans don't trust Obama to do anything, let alone remake our health care system.



We have had just to much information on Obama's agenda. As of tonight I understand he is still attempting to kill off granny. Instead of letting granny's doctor decide when she should get her swine flu shot. The white house has mandated over 65 years of age is the last to be offered the vaccine . As per Dick Morris on Fox Cable News

Answer 12

Yes. It would be a start. Also remove the government as taking any part...be it co-op or separate government entity. Tort reform needs to be real...not lip service.

Answer 13

I would like to see tort reform, no public option, regulation on Pharmaceuticals, regulation on Insurance company's, take care of all the corruption in health care and we would be good to go.

Answer 14

NO! Tort reform is the least of my concerns regarding HR 3200... it's more like I don't want to be in a federal computer system, have my taxes go sky high, have mandatory death counseling for grandma, etc... I want FREEDOM.

Answer 15

There is a lot more at steak and many more revisions needed to overhaul the system, Tort reform is a start. Taxes are definitely not the way.

Answer 16

I'm not interested in government controled health care. So No.



Tort reform and some other minor tweaks and we will be fine.

Answer 17

The fact that it doesn't include tort reform, especially caps on punitive damages, is proof that this health reform has nothing to do with lowering costs.

Answer 18

No, if they want him to include tort reform is because they want to stall the bill complicating everything. Republicans have only one mission, Obama will be the last one...

Answer 19

Probably not. I don't like the idea of the government involved at all, and, yes, that means Medicare and Medicaid too. I'm consistent.



It all comes down to freedom and liberty. I ought to be able to disperse the fruits of my labor any way I choose. I'm not against charity at all, but I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to decide for myself who gets it and who doesn't. This is the essence of freedom. When the government takes that right or ability away from me, I'm less free.

Answer 20

Regardless of alterations in law, responsibility will remain at a high level considering the power shift associated with the proposed legislation.

Answer 21

I will not support any health care reform bill from the Democrats or the Republicans until they reform themselves.

Answer 22

His health care plan is about power and control of the people. He wants everyone to become dependent on the government, hence taking control of the banks, car companies, etc, etc,. He is not interested in giving everyone health care. And it certainly isn't possible without more and more taxes.

Answer 23

Never. As long as the bill is about taxes and control, Obama will never have the support of all Democrats muchless any Republicans.

Answer 24

Democrats would never put that in any legitimate legislation. Their main lobbyists are their lawyer buddies.

Answer 25

What is his plan I would like to read it can you till us which 5/6 plans out there is his plan??????????????



Which one did he write??