Thomas Foley: “we spend a lot of time in Congress talking about health care, and reasonably so, we should. Health care is probably the…”

“we spend a lot of time in Congress talking about health care, and reasonably so, we should. Health care is probably the one thing none of us as citizens can totally control on our own. We can exercise, diet. We can work out. We can do all the right things, but we may be stricken at sometime in our life with Lupus, leukemia, Alzheimer's, AIDS, cancer, any number of maladies that face us. It is important to talk about these subjects because it is important for Congress to grapple with these issues. There is also a looming issue that needs to be discussed, vetted and a solution found for, and that is medical malpractice insurance rates. Florida particularly has been inundated with liability crises and looming coverage where we may see our physicians unable to afford any coverage at all, and if they can find it, the cost prohibitive for them to continue to practice their vital roles that they play in society. Malpractice rates have been rising 20 to 40 percent per year, while inflation has remained virtually stagnant.”