Tax Reform’s Lesson for Health Care Reform

By Bill Bradley, The New York Times

Bill Bradley is brilliant. Democrats want universal health coverage. Republicans want malpractice tort reform. Why not combine them so everyone is happy and the end result is a comprehensive bipartisan bill? It makes sense. An estimated 10 cents of every health care dollar paid by individuals and companies goes for litigation and defensive medicine. This isn’t even counting the astronomical costs added by doctors who perform tests and even surgery that may not be necessary just to be sure that they don’t get sued. Bill Bradley gives an example of how this sort of compromise has worked in the past and outlines how it will work for health care reform.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/opinion/30bradley.html