Health Care Town Hall Pt9 of 12

The question here was:
"Why can't we just fix the part of healthcare that is broken? What is needed is tort reform."

This bought the entire crowd to their feet but the response from Congressman Israel is interesting.

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• Public Option

[lunarsedge]

This is America, we should never be forced to pay for someone Else's health care. Texas has a Healthcare problem like much of the US for the same reason, illegal immigrants.

[sneakypete090]

When you see a sign in a park saying, "Don't feed the animals," it's not because anyone wants animals to die; it's because if people just give them food they'll lose their instinct to work for food. Conservatives want to make sure the resources are out there for the animals to find food. Liberals want to just give them food. Obviously this is a metaphor, the obvious solution to some, "Everyone should have healthcare, this is AMERICA!," is like feeding the animals.

[hoodrichbadrich]

everything you just mentioned is either underfunded, running billions in deficit, or just substandard. Is that how you want your health care run?

[CureStupidity]

You no longer own this metaphor for I have now stolen it! Thanks for creating a spectacular visual! =)

[darsh5k]

So you're okay with 44,000 americans DYING every year because they can't have health care. This is the problem with pure capitalism: the poor die. Don't get me wrong, I believe in the free market, and believe that people who work hard should be more successful than those who don't, but at the same time I think that everyone should be guaranteed certain standards of living, such as healthcare, food, water, and a safe environment to grow up in.

[darsh5k]

Congressman Israel tells it like it is. PUBLIC OPTION NOW!

[darsh5k]

Yeah, we should never be forced to pay for taxpayer funded police, firefighters, libraries, and schools! Oh wait...

[HowdyCallmeDaddy1]

To all my conservative friends. I believe in the Free market, and that government is not the answer to solving the health insurance (cost) problems we have. Having said that, Tort reform can take on a feature of removing the ability of those who have been wronged from access to recourse in the court system. In fact tort reform in conception is in fact collectivism, protecting the whole at the individual expense. The right of one man to sue another for damages is fundamental in our free system

[SimulacrumKnight]

The direct payments from malpractice insurance companies may be only a small part of the whole problem, but I have yet to see anybody talk about the cost of legal defense in malpractice lawsuits. Firms getting thousands on the hour, and billing scores or even hundreds of hours, seems like something a reasonable person would look into to gauge the full cost of frivolous medmal suits. There are other issues, but youtube comments can only be so long.

[bricitybrac]

This guy would sign on to tort reform and the crowd is too ignorant to realize it. What a buncha maroons.

[Thisisnotmyrealname8]

When the wicked are in power there is shouting.