Rob Bishop: “A key element, a crucial element that everyone within the medical community will tell you, is if we don't do cost reform…”

“A key element, a crucial element that everyone within the medical community will tell you, is if we don't do cost reform dealing with tort issues, if we don't deal with the massive amount of litigation that forces doctors to do more and more procedures just so they are covered just in case someone decides to sue them, we will never actually get a handle on the costs of health care that keep going up. Once again, the President has said in past speeches he is willing to look at that. But in one of the four proposals he seemed to add as a sweetener to this deal, it was not to actually have malpractice resolutions, but simply to study alternative malpractice resolutions. Now, that ain't it. A study, we have been doing that for a long time. We know what the problem is.”