Medical malpractice reform can be implemented to reign in costs of any and all health care financing structure regardless of type, from the small town doctor who gets paid in produce by farmers to a universal single payer NHS. It always could be and always can be attempted. It has nothing to do with choosing the system's financing structure, which is the issue before the country right now. It's a cynical side issue being used as a wedge issue.

The same is basically true about illegal immigrants receiving care. They get it now. Stop it now - stop it in the future, but don't change the subject just to make the real issue seem even more complicated and divisive than it already is.