Hey, Congressperson: who bought you lunch today?

Do you oppose including medical malpractice tort reform in the health-care reform bill? A huge amount of the total U.S. health-care expenditures are consumed in “defensive medicine.” Malpractice insurance premiums, whose cost is built into the fees we pay, are astronomical. Nevertheless, the health-care reform bills under consideration in the House and Senate totally ignore this huge cost burden. Surely “health-care reform” must address these huge, unnecessary costs. Is your position that leaving medical malpractice tort reform untouched is consistent with the idea of American health-care reform?