Posted on 06/15/2009 8:37:05 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
Of course Mr. Obama deserves credit for even referring to what he called the "real issue" of medical malpractice reform. The paragraph he appended to his stock speech on health care for the American Medical Association yesterday didn't offer much detail -- "I do think we need to explore a range of ideas," he boldly declared -- but trial lawyers and their stratospheric jury awards and settlements have led to major increases in the medical malpractice premiums, thus driving up the overall cost of U.S. health care.
The system today is worse than random -- many lawsuits do not involve any negligence -- and some physicians respond by leaving such high-risk fields as obstetrics, anesthesiology, neurosurgery and emergency medicine. Others practice defensive medicine, ordering unnecessary tests to immunize themselves if they do end up in court. Economists disagree on the precise burden of this legal fear, but some argue that it exceeds $100 billion a year.
Mr. Obama's cri de coeur might have had more credibility had he not specifically ruled out the one policy to deter frivolous suits. "Don't get too excited yet," he warned the cheering AMA members. "Just hold onto your horses here, guys. . . . I want to be honest with you. I'm not advocating caps on malpractice awards." In other words, the tort lottery will continue. California, of all places, has had great success in holding down liability costs for doctors and hospitals after a 1975 reform that limited pain and suffering damages -- balanced against the public interest of fairly treating victims of genuine malpractice.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Hopenosis doesn’t work as well on the factually educated!
What a stupid blurb out of WSJ. There was noting remotely conciliatory about this speech. It was a threat against the docs, and not even veiled.
There’s no hope and change with Dems. Never was, never is. The American Trial Lawyers Association has its jaws firmly implanted in the buttocks of their political hacks, including Obama.
“...cheering AMA members...”
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In which it is shown that many doctors are high-IQ, one-dimensional, clueless eggheads unable to clearly see the sworn and obvious enemy in their midst.
Bend over and say “aaah,” so the government can give it to you from both ends at once.
In which it is shown that many doctors are high-IQ, one-dimensional, clueless eggheads unable to clearly see the sworn and obvious enemy in their midst.
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The Doctors had better hold to the Hippocratic Oath.
“The Doctors had better hold to the Hippocratic Oath”
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I’m afraid that won’t save them from the voracious, corrupt scum known as Trial Lawyers.
From the article: “...a token policy to keep the health-care industry at the bargaining table.”
Look at Obama’s career, short as it is, and this is what you see. He finds that people and groups can be co-opted with mere words, and then betrayed at the last moment with nary a word.
The industries involved are being temped with illusions, and they expect good which will not be returned.
The Lord is going to busy on Judgement Day.
CBO has already weighed in on this:
Tort adds approximately 19% to the cost of every single thing we buy. Everything.
In a field like medicine, that number, as a percent, has to be stratospheric. $100M is a piker’s figure.
Consider that an OB has to pay $90K for malpractice insurance BEFORE they can pick up a scalpel in WA state.
Result: Exodus. The ones courageous enough to continue practicing are literally working themselves to death.
A liberal Dem POTUS saying that he will in some way limit liability lawyers?
(pausing for laughter to die down).
Here’s a statistic: only 35% of American Doctors are members of the AMA - American Medical Association.
Oh, brother. What a rube. That was a throwaway line.
Or, more accurately, a setup line. Obama didn't mean a damned word of it.
Please excuse my foul language. I should've said, "the Pres--ent".
Obama indicated to one of the doctors at the AMA meeting that he did not wish to father any more children.
Several doctors indicated that they were willing to perform a VIVISECTION on the President!
Let the games begin! lol
He’s such a narcissist that if he had a boy, he’d probably be jealous of him before he reached 6 months old.
Plus the kid would be a “natural born citizen.”
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