Obama signs FY10 Omnibus into Law....

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Originally posted by flat

Actually, this can all be blamed on Congress.  It seems it can not do its job.  I've been watching this respective ineptitude for over 30 years.  If it would do its job as the business agent for the government and pass a responsible identified budget, without earmarks to appease each individual for his/her respective state and lobbiest; then the budgets could be passed on time to avert this madness.  As an example, it has been wasting time and dollars trying to pass the respective health care bill, when the greatest cost factor, "tort reform" is not an element of the stupidly constructed bills both Houses have passed, which should see months of more inane discussion.   I am not a "party" person, but there is a lack of economic sense to this current administration.
Citation please.  Please provide some facts (not provided by a partisan group) that legal costs are the greatest cost for health care in the US. All the numbers I have seen show that tort reform will have less than 5% impact on health care costs.
for eaxmple: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125193312967181349.html

Even so, health-care experts say the direct costs of medical 
malpractice -- the insurance premiums, claims paid and legal fees -- 
amount to a very small portion of overall health-care spending.Total
 spending on medical malpractice, including legal-defense costs and 
claims payments, was $30.41 billion in 2007, according to an estimate 
from consulting firm Towers Perrin. That is a significant figure, but it
 still amounts to a little more than 1% of total U.S. health-care 
spending, which the federal government estimates at $2.241 trillion for 
2007.