What's the difference between tort reform (insurance companies) and retroactive immunity (telecoms)?

[ck4829]

When my wife or my children get put to sleep to undergo surgery, I expect the following to happen...

That they come out of the operating room safe and sound, not in a bodybag
That they go into the operating room, say for an operation on their hand, and not come out missing a foot instead
That they're actually asleep, and not in a state of paralysis
That we don't have to go back 6 months later because someone may have left a sponge or a pair of scissors inside their abdominal cavity

You have to be truly deluded to think that the people who sue for medical malpractice are looking for a cheap buck, the lion's share of these people have had their lives tragically changed forever.

Sounds to me like tort reform and retroactive immunity have a similar purpose: Pushing the People down to the status of second class citizens under corporations.