GOP Health Care Reform: addressing the prime reason for costly health care—malpractice lawsuits

Today the Republicans announced their own health care reform plan. The so called party of “NO” has come up with a comprehensive, simple to administer, $700 Billion plan. Assuming we can pay for the plan, it does not grow government, does not try to tell us how to live, does not terminate seniors to save money, and it keeps medical decisions between you and your doctor. This plan does what the Democrats will not do. It takes on medical lawsuits—tort reform.

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Democrats Deny Seniors the Right to Complete Health Care!

Why do the Democrats feel that the only way to reform health care is to ratio healthcare to seniors and soon to be seniors, as a means of cutting health care costs? It does not take a genius or in this case a Congressional Representative and a President to cut health care costs by taking away health care options. Anyone can provide less and say see it’s cheaper. Real leaders will attack the real issues, tort reform, attorney fee caps, larger pools, more primary care physicians, and so on and so on.

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Fixing Health Care The Smart Way: At The State Level, Starting with Arizona

With the very questionable and incredibly expensive and poorly though out presidential health care initiative appearing to be in trouble, one state among others remains in a high cost medical environment. Arizona doctors, especially primary care physicians are leaving for more conducive legal environments. One state, Texas, has had great success in attracting both primary care physicians and specialists, since it enacted wide-ranging medical tort reform. Tort reform, however, is only part of the solution.

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