"We wouldn’t tell you or anyone that the reason to pass tort reform would be to reduce insurance rates." Oh? Isn't that why all these doctors are threatening to walk out? Do the doctors understand that they are destroying their credibility, and when it's all said and done, Big Insurance will still increase their premiums?

Or maybe there's something going on here that Big Insurance isn't broadcasting too loudly. As previously blogged, first they knock the hole in the dike with malpractice limitations, then they blow the dike away with limitations in all kinds of negligence cases. That's what Big Insurance is after, you know. Injured victims of negligence cost them money; they want those victims -- and we trial lawyers -- neutralized. If that sounds sinister, it's meant to, because it is sinister. Not to mention demonstrative of Big Insurance's incredible cynicism in using the doctors as such pawns in its incredibly high stakes game.