Guess you didn't read III:
Bro, I'm on your side, but come on, those things don't happen in a vacuum. This is America, retards are allowed to vote and the pendulum always swings back. Obummer fucked it up for the rest of us. It sucks, but that's fact Jack. The quicker we face facts and deal with it, the less damage the Retard Brigade can do.
The insurance companies are getting more customers and thus making more profits. Atleast thats the idea. And these profits should be shared with the customers in the form of reduced premiums. This shit is the definition of trickle down.
Note the lack of WHEN in his future tense like I stated... CBO estimate was coincidentally $2700 in savings per family in 2020 or whatever the end of their estimate window was.
See Texas on tort reform - max lawsuit is low as shit there now - and savings is 0.1%... Every bit matters but tort barely did anything there, which isn't optimistic for the nation.
LOL - if you honestly believe anything you said here including my own ideals which are pretty much libertarian - the real version, not the religious right pseudo libertarians - I honestly don't know what to say to you.
My employer plan has "forced" me to have all those coverages the last 20 years. Where was the outcry then?
I understand what you mean by tense, I'm just not willing to give Obama a pass on it.
That's pretty interesting and I didn't know that. I know for a fact though that many diagnostics are ordered by providers simply as a CYA. Would probably take many years to change that paradigm, so I still think long term reform would help but results are what they are.
Patients demanding unnecessary diagnostics and providers ordering them for fear of lawsuit has definitely driven costs up. Not saying it's the only thing but I assure you that the $10-50K/yr malpractice premiums that providers pay has a definite impact on the cost of medicine.
Yes. As did everyone one else on the group plan. And mental health benefits. And chiropractic. Tons of crap I don't personally use but that was and has been part of every employer policy I've ever had.
I'm not saying that lawsuits and CYA tests dont drive up costs, I am pointing out that as a proportion of rising costs, tort law reform is really small. The motivation behind tort reform is clear, corporations want to minimize the losses they take for hospital/doctor fuckups and try to spin this as some sort of magic bullet solution for all healthcare issues which it isn't. It's like being given a bandaid after you just stepped on a landmine. So the actual interest is not to help control healthcare costs for the industry, its to make yourself some extra money.
