{"id":1255,"date":"2009-10-11T14:27:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2009-10-11T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:27:34","slug":"overlooking_the_obvious_in_hea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"Overlooking The Obvious In Healthcare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/10\/cbo-tort-reform-would-save-54-billion-to-the-deficit\/\">Hot Air<\/a>, Ed Morrissey posted an article explaining how much money would be saved in healthcare costs by instituting tort reform.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>&#8220;According to CBO director Douglas Elmendorf on <a href=\"http:\/\/cboblog.cbo.gov\/?p=389\">his blog<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/106xx\/doc10641\/10-09-Tort_Reform.pdf\">CBO studied the impact<\/a> of both the reduced cost of litigation and the elimination of defensive medicine that would result with tort reform.&nbsp; Elmendorf says that tort reform would reduce the federal deficit $54 billion over the next ten years, more than the fee Baucus plans to charge insurers for the privilege of existence (via MarySue at <a href=\"http:\/\/rubyslippersblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/cbo-has-spoken-tort-reform-will-save-on.html\">Ruby Slippers<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;That figure includes savings of roughly $41 billion from <nobr><a class=\"GVAdLink\" id=\"GVLINK_2_0_1\" href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/10\/cbo-tort-reform-would-save-54-billion-to-the-deficit\/#\"><font color=\"#006600\">Medicare<\/font><\/a><\/nobr>, <nobr><a class=\"GVAdLink\" id=\"GVLINK_1_0_0\" href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/10\/cbo-tort-reform-would-save-54-billion-to-the-deficit\/#\"><font color=\"#006600\">Medicaid<\/font><\/a><\/nobr>, the Children&#8217;s Health Insurance <nobr><a class=\"GVAdLink\" id=\"GVLINK_3_0_2\" href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/10\/cbo-tort-reform-would-save-54-billion-to-the-deficit\/#\"><font color=\"#006600\">Program<\/font><\/a><\/nobr>, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits program, as well as an increase in tax revenues of roughly $13 billion from a reduction in private health care costs that would lead to higher taxable wages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This makes more sense than scrapping the best healthcare system in the world for eleven hundred pages of legal gobbletygook.&nbsp; Tort reform is not in any of the packages currently under consideration by Congress.&nbsp; I hope at some point it will be considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey posted an article explaining how much money would be saved in healthcare costs by instituting tort reform.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;According to CBO director Douglas Elmendorf on his blog, the CBO studied the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1255\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}