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Genuine Healthcare Reform Starts by Reigning in the Lawyers
2/9/2010
| EnderWiggins
Posted on 02/09/2010 1:48:28 PM PST by EnderWiggins
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To: EnderWiggins
To: EnderWiggins
We need to eliminate medical lawsuits altogether. We need a general fund to compensate victims of real malpractice for real damage, and a believable way to weed out those guilty of malpractice.
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posted on
02/09/2010 1:52:59 PM PST
by
wendy1946
To: EnderWiggins
"Health Care Reform" has nothing to do with making health care literally cost less money. It only has to do with shuffling around the costs and the decision making process.
If Congress literally wanted health care to be less expensive, they could do so with a bill which could fit on the back of a cocktail napkin.
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posted on
02/09/2010 1:57:04 PM PST
by
Question Liberal Authority
("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
To: EnderWiggins
Uh...if that’s the case....Obomba FIRST!!!
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posted on
02/09/2010 1:57:19 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(VOTE Democrat........DESTROY America)
To: EnderWiggins
As a general observation, litigation or the mere threat thereof, imposes huge costs on society. Virtually everything costs more because of it. The heath care arena would be an excellent place to start limiting excessive and frivolous litigation. A proof of concept if you will.
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posted on
02/09/2010 1:59:23 PM PST
by
Starboard
To: EnderWiggins
yeah, as if the ambulance-chasers running the Democrat party would ever go for that.
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posted on
02/09/2010 1:59:50 PM PST
by
ledzep
To: EnderWiggins
Most medical malpractice cases take place at the state level. Limits at the federal level would have little impact, unless you are also suggesting these limits be imposed upon the states as well.
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posted on
02/09/2010 2:05:23 PM PST
by
NC28203
To: EnderWiggins
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke.
Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
Obama's War on Seniors
Socialized Med Thread
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posted on
02/09/2010 2:06:30 PM PST
by
GailA
(obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
To: EnderWiggins
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posted on
02/09/2010 2:09:19 PM PST
by
Dick Bachert
(DIPLOMACY: THE ABILITY TO SAY "NICE DOGGY" WHILE GROPING FOR A LARGE ROCK.)
To: EnderWiggins
TORT REFORM
To: EnderWiggins
So no lawyer or plaintiff should ever receive a penny in punitive damagesYou do realize that punitive damages are where the trial lawyers make their money.
Ergo, eliminating punitive damages would immediately cut down on the ambulance chasers and malpractice lawsuits.
Let's do it.
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posted on
02/09/2010 2:12:36 PM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: wendy1946
My opinion--compensate for most "adverse outcomes"--that is, provide some compensation for when things go wrong
even when the doctor is not at fault. I would call this no-fault bad outcome insurance. But the catch--it would be overseen by hospital boards and doctors, not lawyers.
A doctor could admit freely of an error in these circumstances, instead of doing CYA.
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posted on
02/09/2010 2:14:34 PM PST
by
Mamzelle
(Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
To: Ole Okie
"You do realize that punitive damages are where the trial lawyers make their money."
Why... yes. That did cross my mind!!
LOL
To: Mamzelle
Actually... that’s a great idea.
Trial lawyers always complain that no one would take these cases if they couldn’t make a boatload of money, and therefore real victims would suffer. Well... here you show that those two issues are completely independent of each other.
To: Question Liberal Authority
And what prey tell oh mighty wizard would this so called reform of yours ( on the back of a cocktail naokin no less) do?
To: the long march
Place a cap on malpractice lawsuits. Cap lawyer fees. Allow more doctors to emigrate to this country. Ensure portability of insurance across state lines.
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posted on
02/09/2010 2:25:34 PM PST
by
Question Liberal Authority
("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
To: Mamzelle
doctor’s protect themselves by doing too many tests and procedures. Because we have become a litigious society people expect no risk and perfect outcomes. Never a good thing
To: EnderWiggins
If you know medicine, then you know that our present adversarial situation prevents doctors from taking responsibility
even when they want to. The stakes are just too high to do the right thing by patients under the present system, where we turn lawyers into bounty hunters.
But I'm not talking winning the lottery. What I have in mind would be more like unemployment insurance or worker's comp. Not enough to tempt a lawyer.
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posted on
02/09/2010 2:27:49 PM PST
by
Mamzelle
(Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
To: EnderWiggins
meanwhile on the Democrat side, look for the trial lawyers and their minions to go absolutely ape doo-doo over John Murtha being allegedly a victim of medical malpractice.
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