Jon Kyl: “Tomorrow we will cast an important vote for our constituents. Once again we have come back to the Senate floor to press…”

“Tomorrow we will cast an important vote for our constituents. Once again we have come back to the Senate floor to press for legislative change on an issue that is critical to health care for all Americans. Time and again we have attempted to stop skyrocketing health care costs due to the runaway tort system under which trial lawyers abuse the court system with spurious claims that drive up insurance premiums for physicians and hospitals and drive them to practice expensive defensive medicine; in other words, performing costly and unnecessary procedures to be sure they won't be sued. Last year I was a cosponsor of S. 11, the Patients First Act of 2003. The Democratic minority precluded us from completing work on that legislation. It is time to stop this obstructionism. Here we are again. This time I hope my colleagues will join in voting for cloture so we may enact the needed reforms to the medical liability system.”