Obama stops short

     Liberals always stop short of solving a problem, simply by refusing to get to the root.
     Root Cause Analysis is the process of figuring out the chain of events that caused a problem, and fixing each in turn, right down to the first. But for liberals, when it comes to fixing problems, they tend to stop at whatever solution makes for big government spending more money.
     One of the primary reasons health care costs have risen so much so quickly is the litigious nature of our society. In all the rhetoric about President Obama's health care plan, no one, and I mean no one, in congress has mentioned the rising cost of physician insurance, which has skyrocketed in comparison to personal insurance. Doctors pay through the nose for malpractice insurance, not because so many of them perform poorly, but because lawyers manage the tort system so well that a single suit can shut a doctor down.
     Tort Reform won't happen though, and it should be no surprise to anyone that that's the last piece of the problem that will ever be addressed, simply because the majority of politicians are lawyers.
     Maybe that's the root cause of a lot of our problems.