"Reform" That Prohibits Reform

The House's health care bill offers to make incentive payments to "to each State that has an alternative medical liability law in compliance with this section." Then the bill defines what kind of medical malpractice reform states need to implement to get this payment from the Feds. Ok, so this bill is making an effort to encourage states to reduce the cost of our crazy malpractice system. Good news? No.

Commentarymagazine.com points out that if states don't get the incentive if they “limit attorneys’ fees or impose caps on damages.” (here) This "reform" bill is effectively saying states can do any kind of medical malpractice reform, as long as they don't actually address the problem. Genius.

So this is what lawyers get for their political contributions and connections...