Oh, believe me, I know how bad "tort reform" is.

Lets bad health care providers off the hook, and those promised reductions in premiums never showed.

http://www.loc.gov/law/help/medical-malpractice-liability/uk.php


The ACA does little or nothing to reform malpractice law. And, in that very respect, one should expect the same capacity to bring forth malpractice claims. It has been the claim of opponents since the beginning that the ACA would actually lead to more "frivolous" lawsuits. So to see the exact opposite claim now provides self-evident proof that it is absurd.

Brits can and do sue the NHS.

The ACA claim, I don't know.

I'm interested in knowing what the email's solution is. From the left, there are plenty of arguments against "Obamacare", but it seems odd that this email is against the tort reform that republicans are always endorsing.

I would need to see the text of this email, and the sources for its claims about England and about Obamacare.

No, no cites in it.

Just the "Obamacare won't let you sue" text.

first, over 90% of mass emails are false - so even without a cite you can assume it's wrong. But it's easy to search, and find things like this

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/05/health/youn-liability-reform

The writer of this article obviously won't address why people sue in the first place!

Because doctors and nurses do *NOT* self-police their ranks.

I have a sister who saw doctors who would fail DUI roadside tests in ER's.
Had she reported Dr Lush, she would have been blackballed.

There are guys in jail for multiple rapes who still have a license to practice medicine.

"Tort reform" is a lie created to let insurance companies and health care providers off the hook even for egregious violantion, like cutting the wrong leg off a diabetic patient, even though the gangrenous one is clearly labeled.

I cannot tell you how many emails I have gotten with links included, but if you click the link, it says just the opposite of what the email says. I guess no one that already believes this shit checks the source.

This especially happens with "Snopes says this is true", with a link to the "false" Snopes article. I would laugh if it were not so pathetic that people write these emails, and fall for them.

In the early days after ACA was passed I was sitting in a medical waiting room listening to a Medicare patient claim "we had good medical care until Obamacare passed and now it is ruined". I continued to listen and of course where did she get her source, FOX news.

It has no bearing on tort law.

This claim is just a first cousin to the death panels claim.