Posted on 08/18/2009 4:05:44 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross
News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher.
With multimillion-dollar jury awards in medical malpractice suits driving up the cost of liability insurance for physicians -- and thus the cost of health care to consumers -- President Barack Obama today backed a health care malpractice reform plan that would create a "public option" law firm to sue doctors for "reasonable" damages.
"We need to keep these ambulance-chasers honest," Obama said. "These sharks are becoming obscenely wealthy by tugging the heartstrings of compassionate jurors, who then grant ridiculous damage awards for pain and suffering, which makes malpractice insurance rates skyrocket and jacks the price of health care for everyone."
The president said, "No one knows better than the U.S. Congress how desperately we need a public option malpractice firm to boost choice and competition. Most members are either lawyers like me, or got elected by befriending lawyers who became major campaign contributors. I'm sure they'll be receptive to my plan because they have that rare combination of being public servants who are committed to equal justice under law."
The public option medical malpractice firm will sue a doctors for actual damages and expenses, and a 10 percent fee to cover the cost of preparing the case.
"By having one group of lawyers in the land who act with unquestioned integrity," said the president, "we'll force the private-sector bloodsuckers to drastically reduce their fees."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calf., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., released a joint statement hailing the president's proposal, and noting that "every private enterprise in America would benefit from a public option alternative, and we're confident attorneys will embrace the personal sacrifice."
Scrappleface? Please.
BO gets wayyy too much money from the lawyers to do anything like this. Thats what gave it away for me.
Tort reform at it’s finest!
This growing trend of fabricating “satirical” news stories with “satirical” quotes is counterproductive in the extreme.
For those like me who come here for a compilation of news stories, it is highly irritating to find these sad attempts at fiction. There’s enough unbelievable - but TRUE - crap going on in this administration; please stop cluttering our minds with nonsense which we must try to delete from our memories after reading just far enough to understand that it’s bs.
Would love to see this crap banned.
If ObummerCare passes, I think I’ll start a company:
Free People
Medical Clinic
- Cash in Advance
- No Waiting
- Top Quality Care*
* $1M maximum malpractice agreement required
Satire can be a powerful way to communicate serious messages. Consider, for example, Swift's “A Modest Proposal”. That satirical essay had a huge and lasting impact.
Speaking of the potential power of satire to change things; consider Alinsky’s 5th rule for radicals: “Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.” Turn your opponents’ tactics back on them.
I enjoy political satire. Thanks for posting.
I just don’t think satire belongs in a place and form where it masquerades as an actual news story...
Most of us are already on information overload...these “news stories” just waste time.
Maybe they can put a big red SATIRE in front so people like me can readily skip them.
Barack Obama today backed a health care malpractice reform plan that would create a “public option” law firm to sue doctors for “reasonable” damages.
Obama’s health care plan mandates that all physicians be paid the same, for a service, regardless of their specialty. I propose that the same be inserted in the law for all lawyers.
Given the times, it's sometimes difficult to tell good satire from hard news. Therefore, it behooves posters to provide a label, for articles meant to be humourous.
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