Jay Rockefeller: “I share my colleagues' interest in malpractice reform. In fact, I daresay that I more than share my colleagues' interest…”

“I share my colleagues' interest in malpractice reform. In fact, I daresay that I more than share my colleagues' interest on this subject. To me, it is part of the problem with our health care system. It is intimately related to cost and psychology and whether doctors' kids or anyone's children want to go into medicine or not. And malpractice reform is something I want very much to do. But I do not want to do it at the risk of killing product liability reform. It is as simple as that. I think if we were to adopt malpractice reform in conflict, not only would it fail, but so would product liability. So in the interest of bringing malpractice reform into the discussion, everything would lose. We can win product liability on a clean bill, which Senator Gorton and I want.”