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Said that if republicans wanted to go along with obamacare, he would go along with malpractice reform. it's about time we got that one done. the third thing is really kind of benign. it's the hippocratic spirit of medicine. they want to do anything to keep the patient alive. sometimes that's the wrong thing to do as it was when my dad showed up at the hospital with kidney failure. >> at the same time, when you talk to the mayo doctors, and i'm sure the geisinger doctors, it's not as if the fact they're not in a fee for services preventing them from the hip kra pocratic oath, with all due respe...

Patient and their doctors and very important decisions they would make. if you look, if you scratch down into some of the delays tails of this -- details of this recommendation, as a cardiologist they're recommending not to perform routine stress tests on asymptomatic patients. that is a very sound, risk based recommendation. getting down to the question of malpractice reform, clearly that is a very important issue. i feel that patients perhaps may be more likely to do their physician for not obtaining the test rather than obtaining the test. it is possible this kind of document may actually s...

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But rather than turning it back and going for another year or two of endless partisan bickering, this was a critical piece of legislation. not a pretty process that passed it. but i would stand for it and implement it responsibly. >> we're now into the part of the discussion on it. the issue was brought up about malpractice reform. democrats are often accused of being too close to trial lawyers and republicans say that's why there's not been the opportunity for reform in this area and why it was not included in the health care bill. if you were elected, would you work to amend that bill to inc...

Coordination. if you have a chronic illness, you need your care taken care of months and years. we have no accountability to improve your care as an individual. putting those things together, better payment systems, better information systems, and ways of holding physicians accountable with hospitals, then we could really drive improvement in the health care system. >> some other ways include enacting malpractice reform, reducing administrative processes, reducing medical errors and creating smarter health care consumers. in the current health care insurance system patients are often unaware o...