Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (26463)	2/22/2010 12:53:01 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "Tort Reform. Texas has one of the strongest tort reform laws in the US. It has made almost no difference." Yes, I've read that. It is EASY for people to make arguments based upon ideology and pure SPECULATION about what they think some proposed policy change may result in.... But when there are ACTUAL HARD EXAMPLES (in this case: State after State...) where the suggested policy has been implemented... then at some point attention has to be paid to the realities... what the REAL RESULTS have been. (And since, as in this case, this public debate about what the effects of 'tort reform' will or won't be), where many claims have been made about how MUCH MONEY 'will be saved'... it is fortunate that we actually can have many examples where tort reform has been implemented that we can measure by... comparing and contrasting the costs in States that have changed these laws with the costs in States that have not.... GOOD to have actual hard facts to talk about instead of just pie-in-the-sky predictions.