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Couple of contradicitons here: First,

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Originally Posted by RosaAlta

We are in the mess we're in because private, for-profit, insurance companies run the show, because Rx costs are out of control, and because our doctors are so afraid of malpractice suits that they routinely order unecessary tests and prescribe unecessary drugs just to cover their own butts.

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Originally Posted by RosaAlta

Big business -- which says Republican to me -- and our own love of litigation have helped put us in this mess. Not well-meaning-if-paternalistic Democrats.

You have to be aware, of course, that trial lawyers have done everything they can to prevent any kind of meaningful tort reform, including reform that would lower the absurdly high cost of malpractice suits, and that they are one of the largest contributors to the Democratic party, which has helped kill most efforts to try to cope with the breathtaking cost of litigation and malpractice costs. Not defining the Democrat's shameful role in this situation does a disservice.

I'm thinking that we are currently between two unforgiving forces: insurance companies and trial lawyers. It's odd that instead of being adversarial, these groups seem to have banded together to squeeze the rest of us. It is true that Republicans get more Insurance lobby money, but to omit the fact that Democrats are in the pockets of trial lawyers isn't fair.