It is absolutely necessary to redo health care
because it takes up 1/6 of our economy. It's not like our health care industry is a driving force in our economy...it's a bloated, inefficient drain.
It's important to look at things from a macro perspective. Tort reform would lower national health care costs
by half of a percentage point. That's good, and all, but it's probably not going to help much when
it's 2035 and health care costs are 31 percent of our GDP.
So, no, it would not be a
great idea for starters...even though Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Betsy McCaughey tell you so. Better ideas? Dumping the fee-for-service system, putting doctors on a salary. Using tax dollars to pay their way through medical school so that they can survive on said salary (even as GPs). Insuring
everyone so that preventative care can be used to treat diseases early and inexpensively. Repealing the health insurance industry's anti-trust exemption clause. And, in order to ensure that free market competition is widespread, aggressive and sustained, creating a universal national health insurance exchange that includes a public option amongst other private options.
In terms of "things that need to be done," those would all
probably be good places to start. Dems even addressed some of them. If your Senators and representatives and commentators (and maybe you, yourself) pulled their heads out of the sand and put them into a newspaper, book or medical journal, they'd probably realize that. Sorry to be so blunt about it, but don't get mad at Obama just because
you don't understand economics.