Sarah Palin inadvertently reveals the problem with the 'Greatest' Healthcare System in the World

[ck4829]

"The plan is to allow those things that had been proposed over many years to reform a health-care system in America that certainly does need more help so that there's more competition, there's less tort reform threat, there's less trajectory of the cost increases, and those plans have been proposed over and over again. And what thwarts those plans? It's the far left. It's President Obama and his supporters who will not allow the Republicans to usher in free market, patient-centered, doctor-patient relationship links to reform health care."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024019454

"competition"
"tort reform"
"free market"

Not a single item of concern about, oh I don't know, the HEALTH of the patient. There will be nothing patient-centered as long as our healthcare system is about a patient's ability to pay, rather than their health.

[Botany]

1. there's less tort reform threat

Please can somebody please tell me what that means?

there's less tort reform threat = 100% gibberish

[Scuba]

3. "Tort reform" is a euphemism for "gut consumer rights".

Why should you be able to sue your doctor just because he was drunk and amputated the wrong limb?

[Botany]

4. I know what tort reform means aka we need to put a cap on medical malpractice claims ....

..... but "there's less tort reform threat" makes no sense at all.

[Scuba]

5. Well of course not, Palin said it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. " less trajectory of the cost increases", for that matter

Does that mean the future is cut short or something?

[Mike Nelson]

2. Thank you, Sarah Palin...

...without you, we would likely have not had President Obama and Affordable Health Care - you ROCK!!!