Like many Americans we’ll be paying close attention to tomorrow’s Health Care Summit.  A new national survey by Public Opinion Strategies includes the following very interesting finding:

When asked an open-ended question about the one or two reform ideas they would most like to see emerge from the meeting, Republicans and Independents would put medical liability much higher on the agenda than what is being discussed in Washington.

Needless to say we couldn’t agree more.  The need for medical liability reform is the sleeping giant of the health care debate.  By embracing it Democrats could score a hat trick: a) find enough common ground to get agreement with Republicans, b) tackle one of the major cost drivers that is essential to actually getting control of health care costs, and c) catch up with the public!

But will the trial bar let them do what’s good for the country?  Do we really need to answer that?