Which concerns you more legal reform or health care reform?

1 I'm concerned about all reform. I'd like to see some real reform, not just the sound-bite, photo-op, nothing-up-my-sleeve kind we always get.

AgentOrange replied to post #1: 2 There was an old clip of Clinton talking about the dire need for health care reform in this country on the news last night. He was going to make it happen but here we still are with 46 million uninsured Americans. Now I'm wondering about Obama's promise and if it's ever going to really happen.

Jaxk replied to post #2: 3 AOJust a note to qualify your numbers. The 46 million is way off base. So what is the true extent of the uninsured “crisis?”

The Kaiser Family Foundation, a liberal non-profit frequently quoted by the media, puts the number of uninsured Americans who do not qualify for current government programs and make less than $50,000 a year between 13.9 million and 8.2 million. That is a much smaller figure than the media report. The difference is the illegal immigrants (about 10 million), Those that can afford it making more than $50,000, but choose not to (about 17 million), and those that already qualify for other government programs (medicare and such).

businessandmedia.org/printer/2007/200707... you get the number down to 10 million it is a much different story. The key here is to reduce the cost of Health Care rather than simply moving it to the government. Legal reform goes a long way towards doing that.

The cost of defensive medicine has been estimated at about $100 Billion/yr. That is what doctors do to insure they aren't sued not the actual cost of the lawsuits (which is a much smaller number). It is the additional testing or medication that isn't needed.

The practise of sending everyone to a specialist for diagnosis or treatment (now you have two visits instead of one). All in an effort to keep from being sued. There is another $100 Billion in Medicare/Medicaid fraud.

We need to address the real issue rather than starting yet another government program that will have even more abuse and eventually go bankrupt just like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. If we address the real problem rather than simply building bigger government we may have a chance to actually fix something.

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