Abort Tort Reform
September 4, 2009
Tort reform is irrelevant and unimportant in the immediate future. Anyone who has had to deal with the current health care system and its corrupt insurers (even those who are most vociferous for tort reform) will run to the nearest attorney as the only resort in dealing with an unresponsive monolith that is insensitive and irresponsible.
Reform the system with a strong public option (preferably single payer) that will humanize, render efficient, and make responsive those who monitor health care. Then, tort reform will be unnecessary because the abuses that now prompt litigation will be minimized (which in turn will minimize litigation).
Those who mount the barricades in favor of tort reform are the haves, the wealthy, and the hidden motive behind their call for tort reform is to disenfranchise and disempower the have nots. Tort reform is nothing but upper class contempt for the lower class masquerading as social reform.
Tort reform is a silly red herring. Tackle the big fish, and this little fish will fade into relative insignificance.
