Doctors' boos show Obama's tough road

Subject: txt hcare - Analysis:
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama isn't used to hearing boos.

For all the young president's popularity, the response he got Monday from doctors at an American Medical Association meeting was a sign his road is only going to get rockier as he tries to sell his plan to overhaul the nation's health care system.

The boos erupted when Obama told the doctors in Chicago he wouldn't try to help them win their top legislative priority — limits on jury damages in medical malpractice cases.

But what could they expect? If Obama announced support for malpractice limits, that would set trial lawyers and unions — who own the Democratic party — on the attack...

[Liability insurance is the single largest cost to doctors trying to practice - anywhere from hundreds of thousands to multiple millions of dollars - per year - just to cover the no-limit law suits they're inundated with. Until we fix that, we can forget about ever reducing health care costs.]

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