Howard Dean on Tort Reform, Trial Lawyers and Health Care

In this shockingly honest video, Howard Dean shares the dirty little secret of why tort reform was left out of the health care bill.

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• Howard Dean
• Health Care
• Tort Reform
• Lawsuit Reform
• Trial Lawyers

[fbob107]

Thanks for the truth. Hope and change is a joke

[kauboy9816]

They are scared because it's the trial lawyers who keep shoveling money at them when campaign time comes around. If you tick them off, they cut off a major revenue stream.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you... more.

These politicians lost all understanding of what it means to be a statesman decades ago...

[123gwf]

There's also the little fact that most lawmakers are themselves lawyers.

[TheStallion3]

People suing for asinine reasons is not as frequent as tort reforming propagandists would like you to believe. If there is any group that is too litigious it is massive corporations and their corporate lawyers. There are certain things that citizens should have redress for damages caused by companies or corporations. The only reason tort reform is such a popular issue is because it's another attack plan to lower costs and increase profits for the people who really run the country.

[NoGuff]

Are you telling me that when I write "trial lawyers are on Democrats side" that I mean 100% of all lawyers are Democrats? Are you that ridiculous?

As with teachers & journalists, most trial lawyers & their associations donate to, vote for, & back Democrats. Why? I can't say for sure, but I can say that Liberals are more litigious than most people because they want to take things from others, they want to use laws for social engineering, & their moral code comes from law instead of religion.

[Mauhadeeb28]

Informed? Are you trying to tell me that lawyers aren't lobbying for the RNC????

[NoGuff]

"Don't forget that the Republicans are in the hands of the trial lawyers lobbyists too"

--Actually trial lawyers are on Democrats side. Get informed. And both parties have lobbyists after them.

[Mauhadeeb28]

Don't forget that the Republicans are in the hands of the trial lawyers lobbyists too.

[SandmanSB2008]

BOTH PARTIES??!!!  Come on. 90%+ goes to the Democratic Party.

[SandmanSB2008]

You DO have a point, the entire system is rotten to the core. BUT, that does NOT excuse the Democratic Party's fealty to the Trial Bar, nor address the destructive effect this has on the Medical System.

I am a practicing physician. I have had one MP suit in my 18 year career (much better than the 1:2.5 years average for my specialty). Still that suit took over 2 years of my life, cost me three weeks of work and my defense company >$125K to defend. And it was a fraudulent claim.

[mx5rush]

Amazed people are trying to make this a 'democrat' issue... our ENTIRE POLITICAL STRUCTURE sold out to special interest groups like 'trial lawyers' ages ago. Wake up you partisan idiots... you're as much a part of the problem as congress and their special interest buddies are.