In his State of the Union address, President Bush urged lawmakers to rewrite tort law rules to do away with class action lawsuits. We take a look at medical malpractice with Joanne Doroshow, executive director of the Center for Justice and Democracy.
In his State of the Union address Wednesday, President Bush urged lawmakers to rewrite tort law rules to do away with class action lawsuits he says have become a significant drag on the economy.
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AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about the scope of what’s happening right now. What does tort reform mean?
JOANNE DOROSHOW: Right, well, it's a bit of a misnomer. It's not really reform at all. All these laws that are under the guise of tort reform are really about taking away people's rights to go to court, taking away their access to the courts, undermining the constitutional right to trial by jury, and it's also, the second part of this is, they're all payoffs to the major corporate contributors of the politicians that are advocating these laws. There's nothing good about them. They're all anti-consumer, they will hurt people, they will make, they will devastate families in this country, and this is a top priority of the Bush Administration.
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