!@#$% a-hole!
“John Edwards Wants”
I’ve always wondered what it was like to want.
;-)
Yes, let’s just further tilt the playing field between domestic and foreign labor costs.
Edwards is to stupid what Hillary is to evil.
Free Shampoo and Conditioner too!
I've often thought we are currently living in some funhouse-mirror-image of the Soviet Union. We don't have all the same features, but the people are mostly socialist and the government keeps expanding its power over every aspect of life.
I wonder how much investment Edwards has in the Insurance and health care systems. Wouldn’t you want to force every employer to provide healthcare for your dividend?
And would you apply this strategy to Islamic terrorists, John? I thought not...
That would just not be possible in Edwards' scenario.
One question: Under his plan, how many billions will be set aside for attorney fees for malpractice frauds like him?
Mr. Edwards isn’t a real candidate, neither is Mr. Obama.
Both are feigning aggressive stupidity to make the 2008 Democrat nominee, Mrs. Clinton, look like a “moderate” or even “conservative”(sic), relatively speaking.
You can enjoy ,or be irritated, by the show. But please remember this is not a real process that these folks are working through.
This sounds stupider and stupider, every time I read it.
I don’t get it, Edwards wants to punish the health insurance industry by providing them with tens of millions of new customers?
Doesn’t make a lick of sense.
Moron.
He is right about one thing:
“The time to talk (with your adversary) is after you’ve beaten them.
Seems not enough Republicans are conservative enough to know this. Everybody hugs AFTER they’ve won. The only times Dems compliment a Republican is after they’ve beaten them.
He filed at least 20 similar lawsuits in the years following and achieved verdicts and settlements of more than $60 million for his clients. His fee, as is customary in “contingency” cases, was one-third of the settlement plus expenses.
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Edwards’ first notable case was a 1984 medical malpractice lawsuit.
Edwards won a $3.7 million verdict on behalf of his client, who suffered permanent brain and nerve damage after a doctor prescribed a drug overdose of anti-alcoholism drug Antabuse during alcohol aversion therapy.
Edwards sued the American Red Cross three times, alleging transmission of AIDS through tainted blood products, resulting in a confidential settlement each time, and defended a North Carolina newspaper against a libel charge.
In 1985, Edwards tried a case involving medical malpractice during childbirth, representing a five-year-old child born with cerebral palsy whose doctor did not choose to perform an immediate Caesarian delivery when a fetal monitor showed she was in distress. During the trial, it has been argued that Edwards relied more on his verbal skills as a trial lawyer than on actual science, as questions remain about whether or not it was or could be proven scientifically that there is a direct connection between a delay in delivery and brain damage like cerebral palsy. While delivering his summary to the jury, Edwards said, “I have to tell you right now — I didn’t plan to talk about this — right now I feel her [Jennifer], I feel her presence...[Jennifer’s] inside me and she’s talking to you.”[14] Edwards won a $6.5 million settlement for his client, but five weeks later, the presiding judge sustained the verdict but overturned the award as being “excessive” and that it appeared “to have been given under the influence of passion and prejudice,” adding that in his opinion “the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict.” He offered the plaintiffs half of the jury’s settlement, but the child’s family appealed the case and settled for $4.25 million.[12] Winning this case established the North Carolina precedent of physician and hospital liability for failing to determine if the patient understood risks of a particular procedure.
The biggest case of his legal career was a 1997 product liability lawsuit against Sta-Rite, the manufacturer of a defective pool drain cover. The case involved a three-year-old girl[15] who was disemboweled by the suction power of the pool drain pump when she sat on an open pool drain whose protective cover other children at the pool had removed.
It was an emotional appeal that made reference to his son, Wade, who had been killed shortly before testimony began in the trial.
The jury awarded the family $25 million, the largest personal injury award in North Carolina history. The company settled for the $25 million while the jury was deliberating additional punitive damages, rather than risk losing an appeal.
Edwards received one-third contingency fees plus expenses.
After Edwards won a large verdict against a trucking company whose worker had been involved in a fatal accident, the North Carolina legislature passed a law prohibiting such awards unless the employee’s actions had been specifically sanctioned by the company.
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John Edwards and His Six Million Dollar Mansion
candidate has built himself a 29,000-square-foot mansion
102-acre estate, heavily wooded site and winding driveway ensure that the home is not visible from the road, trespassing signs discourage passersby from venturing past the gate
He has pledged to alleviate poverty and help the working poor.
This is one businessman that will close down if this happens. Between taxes and workers comp and liability insurance, there is little profit left after payroll for all the bs I have to wade through.
Edwierds has a great economic policy that will tank our economy worse than Carter.
As a result of these and other cases, insurance rates for doctors have skyrocketed — putting some out of business and driving others away, especially from rural areas. And doctors who have lost cases to Mr. Edwards have been bankrupted.
Patients, meanwhile, are left with rising health care costs and fewer — if any — doctors in their area. It is increasingly a nationwide problem, physicians say.
Dr. VanDerVeer, the Charlotte neurosurgeon, recalled one recent night on duty when two patients arrived in an emergency room in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where the area’s last neurosurgeons quit earlier this year.
“No one in Myrtle Beach would accept responsibility for these patients,” he said. And because it was raining, the helicopters were grounded, so the patients were loaded into ambulances and driven the four hours to Charlotte.
Upon arrival, one patient had died, and the other learned that she merely had a minor concussion — and a $6,000 bill for the ambulance ride.
“That’s just one little slice of life here,” Dr. VanDerVeer said. “It’s a direct result of the medical-malpractice situation that John Edwards fomented.”
“We are currently being sued out of existence,” Dr. VanDerVeer said. “People have to choose whether they want these lawyers to make gazillions of dollars in pain and suffering awards or whether they want health care.”
“Those groups will not give up their power voluntarily”
They won’t give up their “power”? They don’t have any power. Unlike the Federal government, they can’t coerce you into buying their product. Liberals just can’t give up on forcing people to do what they want. I wish the liberals and their ilk would get lost.