Posted on 08/14/2009 11:48:06 AM PDT by AJKauf
Though an obvious contributor to health care problems, tort reform is not part of any of the Democratic Party bills for revising the United States health care system.
Fairness may very well be the president’s reason for not backing tort reform, but other elements of the plan seem unfair, such as the prospect of rationing health care, and that hasn’t stopped him. It seems that the president should be desperate to find some savings in his health care plan, as the Congressional Budget Office has said almost every Democratic Party idea increases rather than decreases spending. Tort reform may very well be the ticket to heath care savings that President Obama is looking for...
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The main goal for Obama’s medical care plan is to allow lawyers to control what doctors do. That’s why tort reform is not in the plan.
The messiah promised the ABA there would be NO tort reform.
Because trial lawyers were his biggest contributors during the campaign? Do I win a new car?
The Dems are owned by the trial lawyers, that’s why.
Because, as we all know, it isn't about DeathCare, it's about KONTROL!!!!
Nope.
But if you qualify you can get $4,500 off a new car!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahah! ! ! ! ! ! *snort*
Obama’s America is a Kleptocracy where government money is used to pay off his comrades, not punish them.
Is this a trick question?
I heard an honest democrat being interviewed,
he said, and I quote “you can’t honestly believe democrats will do anything that would hurt the trial lawyers, do you?”
Except many states have already enacted some sort of tort reform, and I have yet to see an objective, comprehensive study that concludes that such reforms have had a significant impact on malpractice premiums or health care costs.
TOO MANY LAWYERS!!
I fear that many of our problems today stem from the fact that far too many of our legislators are LAWYERS. Further, I believe that we need more DOCTORS in those positions – and NO LAYWERS!!
Lawyers as legislators pose a very, very serious problem for an ostensibly free people: They LOVE making laws and the more complex and incomprehensible the better. Think about it: In the private sector – to which many of them return (hopefully in HUGE NUMBERS IN 2010!!) – they, and their buds who remain behind in the private sector, earn their often obscene incomes (in addition to the obscenely generous, COLA congressional pensions and tax subsidized HEALTH CARE!) wading through that Byzantine labyrinth of rules and regulations they, themselves, constructed. It’s a process that prompted Otto von Bismarck to remark that “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” Can I get an “AMEN?”
While there ARE exceptions (Bill Frist toward the end of his term, Phil Gingrey — who strays from time to time) my rule that physicians make better legislators than most lawyers generally holds true. I attribute that to the fact that most doctors are trained in the SCIENTIFIC METHOD and rely more on FACTS and EMPIRICAL DATA for their decisions. Ron Paul, Larry McDonald, Paul Broun, John Linder, Tom Price are (or were) all doctors. I’m sure you can think of other examples/exceptions.
Unfortunately, far too many of these guys are ATTORNEYS.
Our late friend and author, composer, conductor, Nashville music producer, lover of Bach, pianist and all-around Renaissance man, Tupper Saussy, who somehow dodged the family tradition of becoming one, traced the term “attorney” back to the Sanscrit word “torwa.” And what does “torwa” mean? TO TWIST!
While SOME of these attorney-legislators are conservatives, their law school moot court training forced them to argue BOTH SIDES OF THE SAME CASE. I rather suspect that experience allows them to rationalize voting against the Constitution when expediency and/or their political survival/favor with their party leadership dictates. It is textbook moral relativism and we all pay for their perfidy.
Let me tie that attorney-legislator problem into the current health care debate: I might have missed it but I don’t believe there was one mention of TORT REFORM from the lawyers who cobbled together that 1,000+ page monstrosity now dividing the nation.
I’ll give you three guesses as to why — and the last two don’t count!
And here’s something to think about for the primary elections to the 2010 general election: If the attorney-legislator representing your district does not pass muster at www.gradegov.com, if you can, find a NON-LAWYER for whom to vote after grilling him on the first principles near and dear to those who cherish freedom and the Constitution.
Too hard, say you?
No. SLAVERY is hard.
“honest Democrat?”
WHERE’S THE REQUIRED OXYMORON WARNING???
Lawsuit abuse is a major tool of leftists in their war to bring this country down. Environmentalists. Community Reinvestment Act extortion of large banks wanting to expand. ACLU activities. And malpractice lottery lawsuits. Just take a step back and look at the big picture.
Look at what the leftists in government are trying to control. The environment (global warming, oil production, clean energy, stopping coal production); banking (equity investment in CitiGroup; onerous new Reg Z; anti-money laudering, strings attached to TARP); schools and colleges (ACLU on prayer, curriculum, revisionist history); healthcare
Just for fun and to evoke a certain image, shall we put “Why so” in front of these questions,
Example: “WHY SO NO TORT REFORM?”
Just for fun and to evoke a certain image, shall we put “Why so” in front of these questions,
Example: “WHY SO NO TORT REFORM?”
I have a better question: Why isn't tort reform the only plan? There is nothing wrong with our health care system and for the republicans to buy into that crap as if we need to pass SOME type of health care bill is just BS. They know we don't need it.
Top ten ways to cut health care costs.
1. Eliminate pharmacies and have the post office deliver medications.
2. Make malpractice suits a TV reality show.
3. Direct deposit government checks to trial lawyers.
4. Ration major surgery using Power Ball.
5. Put the admissions office for hip replacements on top of El Capitan.
6. Put the TSA employees in charge of all other admissions.
7. Contract with Roto Rooter for heart by-pass and colon surgery.
8. Have Thursday night emergency room specials to avoid the weekend build up.
9. Put laundromats in hospitals and let the patients relatives change the sheets.
10. Do sweat the expensive stuff; we are all going to die anyway.
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