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Originally Posted by paulo537
Bullshit.
The only thing you can possibly twist into calling tort reform in the bill is giving $50,000,000.00 of Federal tax money to the states to study and offer alternatives to current tort law at the state level.
That is "Tort Reform?"
No, that is giving states 1/20 of a Billion dollars to study **** we already know.
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Of course you realize that, as insurance laws vary state by state, there is zero way to implement "tort reform" on a federal level. So it has to be on an individual state level.
You also realize that the Republican position supporting "tort reform" as an alternative to the PPACA was to do so state by state.
So the PPACA actually
giving the Republicans a good start on state by state tort reform is exactly what the opponents to the PPACA where whining for. They got what they wanted. A start on tort reform state by state, which they maintain will lower health insurance costs