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Healthcare Reform or Tort Reform?

The GOP has adopted one of their favorite talking points to help defeat healthcare reform. Instead of offering a better plan, or even a plan, they're suggesting that we enact TORT REFORM. Unfortunately, if they ever paid attention to statistics, they'd realize that not only are lawsuits not contributing to insurance rates, but states that have enacted tort reform are seeing higher malpractice insurance rates than those that haven't. Mike Papantonio of Air America's Ring of Fire appears on CNBC's "Power Lunch" to debate the issue.

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Obama: Big Pharma's Sugar Daddy?

Healthcare reform is a hot-button issue these days, but few people are looking below the surface. If they took a closer look, they'd realize that the pharmaceutical industry, which has been a staunch supporter of the GOP for decades, has all of a sudden started praising President Obama. Like most issues, if you just follow the money, you'll find out why they now love the president and the Democrats in Congress. Mike Papantonio of Air America's Ring of Fire talks about this relationship, which has turned healthcare reform into nothing more than a free ride for the pharmaceutical industry.