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Lately, President Obama has begun calling his plan to reinvent America's health care system "insurance reform." Yet the version of the plan moving through the Senate also includes restaurant menu reform (a mandate requiring the conspicuous posting of calorie counts) as well as grocery reform, transportation reform and recreation reform (money to build farmers markets, bike paths, sidewalks and jungle gyms).
These provisions are all aimed at making Americans thinner, on the theory that doing so will reduce medical spending. It won't. Even if it did, we should be wary of a political theory that says taxpayer-funded health care...
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Texas passed tort reform. The lawyers insisted that it would take away the protections for poor people and ruin the medical care we were getting. The opposite occurred. The law states that the MOST a person can get by suing is the cost of medical care to correct any problem created by the doctor and AT MOST $100,000. No million dollar+ settlements.
We were having problems with doctors leaving the state or changing...