Posted on 09/04/2007 4:54:21 PM PDT by Libloather
RUSH: If John Edwards is going to require every one of us under his universal health care plan, socialized medicine, to go to the doctor all the time -- it's going to be mandatory; the government is going to make us go to the doctor -- then I have an idea. I think the government should make every American have access to a lawyer. I think the federal government should take over the whole legal field, just like they're taking over the whole health care industry. Take over the legal business. Set prices for all services. Set salaries for all attorneys. Everybody should be forced to go to a lawyer for preventive legal care. You must be sent to the lawyer for your will. You must be sent to a lawyer, a government lawyer, for your pre-nup. You must go to a lawyer for your real estate contracts and so forth. No lawyer will be allowed to make more than $200,000 a year, and every lawyer will be assigned an area of the country in which he will work. If we're going to do this in health care, if John Edwards wants to do this to the medical industry, well, why don't we just look at the same way of behaving under the legal system in this country and virtually everything else?
LMAO, great analogy. The lawyers would go stark raving mad if this came to be.
and a sweeter day on earth may never be known...
My wife belongs to a the equivalent of an HMO for legal help at work (the private insurance side) while the Legal Services Corporation works from the socialized end.
yeaaarrrggghhh!!!
can you spell c-o-c-i-a-l-i-s-m
to each according to his (her, whatever) needs
translation: you end up socialist pimps controlling everything and you get bread lines and other lines with shortage of everything
didn’t work on people, they should try it first on monkeys
frrreeeps meee
Uh... if you cannot afford a lawyer one will be appointed to you.
Do you understand these rights?
I knew that there were a few services out there that took monthly funds to provide basic services, but I didn’t realize it had reached what might be termed the HMO level yet. Thanks for the note.
LOL
Actually, it would in some regards be more reasonable than socialized medicine. After all, much of the need for lawyers, unlike much of the need for doctors, is created by government. Further, unlike hospitals which are supposed to overtly favor patients at the expense of the pathogens that inhabit them, courts are supposed to represent a fair "playing field" for litigants. Further, if someone is accused but acquitted of a crime, it would seem only "fair" that the government should pay their legal fees (since the government is responsible for having brought the case in the first place).
Of course, there would be many problems with that sort of legal system--too many for it to be anything other than a "bad idea", but there'd be a lot more basis for socialized legal service than for socialized medicine.
but see if we did that Edwards would suffer and not be able to afford his large home and life!
Why should wealthy people (O.J. Simpson comes to mind)be able to buy his way out of murder? Poor people get the luck of the draw when they get a court appointed lawyer. Often it amounts to life or death! I hate most lawyers.
I say we should all have access to plumbers. Let’s hear it for Socialized Plumbing Care.
The ONLY thing good about Communist healthcare is that you can renew you driver’s license, vehicle registration and register to vote while you’re standing in line to speak to a government bureaucrat about maybe seeing a doctor if one is available.
bump.
Single payer food
How dare these toads pay $79 for an entree when there are people suffering!
This plus Loser Pays. That fixes 90% of the problems.
On the horizon? Yes. One should never underestimate the power of large groups of stupid people.
One should also never underestimate the stupidity of one guy who skims sentences and sees “Health” in the headline where “Legal” resides.
I hope so. Liberals and lawyers need a taste of their own medicine.
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