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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Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, a medical doctor who served as governor of Vermont, said at a town hall meeting on Tuesday night that Democrats in Congress did not include tort reform in the health care bill because they were fearful of “taking on” the trial lawyers.
“This is the answer from a doctor and a politician,” said Dean. “Here is why tort reform is not in the bill. When you go to pass a really enormous bill like that the more stuff you put in, the more enemies you make, right? And the reason why tort reform is not in the bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawylawyers in addition to everybody else they were taking on, and that is the plain and simple truth. Now, that’s the truth.”
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At least he was being honest about it. They are afraid to loose their support.
Obama is a lawyer, dems get heaps of money from their donations. They are a special interest group that favor dems. In return the lawyers get huge cases and make huge profits so they can give it to the dems.
So much for Obama’s promise not to give special interest groups priority… it’s disappointing..what a liar.
Sfancik– check out Texas if you think tort reform doesn’t work…
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The Democrats have gotten a lot of money from trial lawyers and Obama promised to protect them and not the people…
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The hidden secret of politics.
The largest special interest group in america are the trial lawyers.
Trial Lawyers gave 236 million dollars in campaign contributions in 2008.
80% of that money went to members of the Democratic Party.
Trial lawyers, gave more campaign money, than the next 10 largest special interest groups combined.
Compare :
Big Oil – 23 million 60% republican , 40% democrat
Drug Companies – 26 million 55% republican . 45% democrat
Insurance industry – 25 million 51% democrat, 49% republican.
But you have liberals, who go oh no, the insurance industry gave republicans 12 million dollars last year.
And completely forget about the 200 million trial lawyers gave democrats.
The link below, list all major industries and how much and to who they donated campaign money to.
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Howard Dean said the reason there was no tort reform in the ObamaCare bill was because they were afraid to anger the trial lawyers who drive up medical costs with endless lawsuits against doctors, hospitals, device makers, drug makers, etc.
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This was a amazing. A Democrat told the truth for once… Amazing. Howard Dean basically stated why their is no Tort Reform which will save 60 to 200 billion dollars yet its not in the bill. Maybe its because the lawyers have teh democrat party bought off? Or maybe because Obummer was a lawyer.
In this video, Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) and Howard Dean (former presidential candidate and ex-DNC chair) provide a shockingly honest answer about why lawsuit reform was left out of the pending health care bill.
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