Hm, let me see here. You are so much in support of tort reform, I presented two solid examples where it was tried and did NOT work (Texas of today and California where it was passed under Reagan), and you still can't pull yourself away from the conviction that tort reform is some kind of great shining solution to all that ills our health care system.
I haven't discussed my solution, have I? Personally, I like Germany's system: single-payer for those who want it, and for those who decide to opt out of it, they're free to purchase private health insurance or health care on their own.
In other words, they have a freedom of choice that we don't have. AND - unlike your claim - it DOES work in the real world...Germany proves it every single day, ensuring ALL citizens have access to quality health care, at a much lower per-citizen cost than we already pay.
But wait! Let me guess - you're going to say, "well, just move to Germany, then!" Because that's the normal retort from conservatives whenever we point out how this or that nation is able to do something better than we do, with much fewer taxpayer dollars than we do. The problem with this is that it exposes a grand assumption that it's somehow unpatriotic to learn positive lessons from other nations, much less to copy one their ideas when that particular idea is a heck of a lot better than what we've currently got.
Establish policies and procedures to pay benefits for health care services rendered to a beneficiary who is temporarily living or traveling in another state;
