That's the headline in the Washington Post's coverage of this breaking story, which reports that the President has sent a letter to Congressional leaders assuring them that he is "open to increasing Medicaid reimbursements for doctors, stepping up efforts to combat fraud in the health-care system, and ensuring that people who buy insurance on so-called insurance exchanges could participate in Health Savings Accounts."
When I first saw the headline, I immediately assumed that the President was finally standing up to the American Trial Lawyers Association by acknowledging that every American could be covered by health insurance if we could simply recover even 50% of the waste associated with "defensive medicine" as it is currently practiced by U.S. physicians living in fear of malpractice suits. Silly me.
The case for tort reform is well argued by Anne Kim and David Kendall in today's Roll Call.
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