Well John - why did not Dean say that?
I've heard him say it before. Several times. However, I haven't read his healthcare book so I don't know whether he says it there. That would be a good test.
As for that occasion, two possibilities. The first, and most likely, is that he did say it but that part of the answer was clipped out. We see so much of that, that my first suspicion on these things is statements jerked out of context. It's high schoolish, or even junior high schoolish to do so, but the critics of healthcare reform seem to see it as a way of life.
The second possibility is that he simply skipped saying it. Dean gets a kick, sometimes, out of simply saying blunt, confrontational things. Gets him in trouble. He may have left the qualifiers out just to get a rise.
Don't know.
But I do know, from the stuff posted here repeatedly, that tort reform is not a healthcare cost issue, in the aggregate. |
