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POPSIn High-Sounding But Hollow Rhetoric in Which He Excels
That solution is medical malpractice reform. (The amount of money involved may run as high as $100 billion a year.) One would think that a president who has been pressuring the medical industry to save $300 billion over ten years would jump at the chance to save over three times this amount simply by passing reasonable caps on malpractice suits. Yet having declared himself "willing to listen" to all and sundry -- and having just moments before proclaimed the "need to explore a range of ideas" -- Obama simply slammed the door on any discussion of tort reform. Could this have something to do with the fact that the tort bar has been the largest single contributor to the Democratic Party in recent years? He is calling on doctors, insurers, and drug companies to make great sacrifices to bring about universal coverage. The truth is that a government-run system based on a "public option" insurance plan running private plans out of business, would have the ability to do just that.
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POPSDems Pave the Way for Massive Looting by Lawyers the potential awards would be huge. Most companies would feel compelled to settle such claims rather than endure the expense and difficulty of defending allegations about long-ago behavior. The recipe here is file a suit, get a payday. That’s fine with Democrats, who define “economic justice” as stealing wealth from those who create or earn it, to buy votes from those who don’t. There’s more: The Democratic majority is also resurrecting the concept of “comparable worth” with the Paycheck Fairness Act. Teachers do tend to earn less than truck drivers, despite more education. Then again, truck drivers work long, hard, often unpredictable hours. The market — not some secret patriarchy — places different values on different jobs. And in the case of teachers, the main salary setter is the government. Naturally Obama supports both bills, and Dems may now have the numbers they need to ram them past Republicans.
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