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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Srexley who wrote (548828)3/5/2004 2:29:19 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
"you were advocating cutting back on a means for the elderly and less fortunate to pay the costs."

>>> It's not a zero-sum game. a more efficient tax system (say: flat rate with few loopholes, and the elimination of countless socialistic subsidies) would actually INCREASE the amount of public money that could be made available.

"The repubs have tried for tort reform, which is the biggest issue, and the dems always shut it down."

>>> I think the statistics will back this up that 'tort reform' is NOT the largest contributor to rising medical costs. Likely the biggest drivers for it are (in order):

1) Pharmaceutical policies (including patent extensions made by 'friendly' Congress-persons)

2) lack of standardized insurance claim procedures (the government indicates a couple of hundred billion could be saved if just *one* change was made in this area, mandating a single insurance form to be used.

3) tort reform

4) bad doctors driving up costs for all the good doctors.
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