Actually, tort reform was on the table and had the Repubs decided to participate in the legislative process with a few votes it could have been part of the final bill...

As for "socialism"... Yeah, if may be damaged goods but it's because the progressives aren't the ones with the money to buy mass media PR campaigns to undo what the corportists have no problem affording... But that can be said of juswt about every progressive idea... Hard to compete without the cash to frame yer ideas...

B~