was Dean even there, nobody elected him.

How about posting that raving idiot screaming……..that was classic and fits in nicely with his latest gem!

I guess the plants and union thugs would not be able to attend …..

Regards

Without tort reform, physicians are being left high and dry.

They will be forced to take the pittance the government will pay them for their services. But, without any of the real paying patients (i.e those who have private insurance) to make up for the Medicare level reimbursements, they will be left holding the bag.. paying higher and higher malpractice premiums with smaller and smaller incomes.

It’s not the government that lawyers will be going up against. The government is leaving physicians in private practice and just as vulnerable to the ambulance chasers as they are now.

And doctors are all gung ho for this plan why again??? Or is that another bit ‘o propaganda spewed out by our White House?

<a href=”http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Tort-reform-must-be-part-of-health-care-reform-8096175.html”see here

As well as other wise and logical reforms to health insurance law regarding state borders and required coverages.

First, most people still face the MSM media filter. So it might not be that advocates aren’t talking about it, just that the media don’t report on it.

Second, this is Democrat super-majority we are taking on. They are pretty much owned lock stock and barrel by the trial lawyers. Even more so than the unions or ACORN. So to some extent it really doesn’t matter how effective tort reform would be, it is effectively off the table. Which is part of why Dean’s remark is so revealing. It’s one thing for those of us on the right to know that, it’s a whole other ball of wax for someone on their side to admit it.

Okay, three points. I’ve also recently started hearing and seeing a meme about “lots of states have tried tort reform and it hasn’t lowered premiums, the only thing that has happened is maimed and disabled people have been restricted to $250,000 in damages to deal with their continuing medical problems.” So the radical left is already laying the groundwork for a new set of Known Facts(tm) that can’t be questioned. First time was on a talk program up near Philly this past weekend, the other place was on a moderate blog Moe Hot Linked to the other day.

They’ll be locking him in a closet next to good ole Joe very very soon.

States rights unless its something I want… Never understood why some Republicans want to push tort reform at the federal level when it has been shown to be doable at the state level (Texas)…. You let the feds handle it and they will just screw it up.

haven’t dropped? When did their Tort Reform get implemented?

apparently Dem Congress critters are just making stuff up now.

Dave Loebsack from Iowa reportedly told his townhall participants that health care premiums will be paid for by the government for businesses with payrolls under $500k… which is a bald-faced lie.. that limit applies only to exemptions.

ask them which bill and the specific section of the bill where those mandates will be found. The truth is, they haven’t read the bill because most people simply don’t have time to read a 1,000+ page bill.

…more than sick people.

Explain why in your next post, why don’t you?

If he had used it, he might have survived longer. Unlikely – he wasn’t likely to answer Dean’s own charge, which is why he tried to change the subject so – but there was always the chance.

I’ll never understand why these people will go to the wall for the likes of John Edwards.

Cash Bar – How trial lawyers bankroll the Democratic party

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_16_53/ai_76915714/

The conceit of trial lawyers is that they are fighting Goliaths in order to win verdicts to compensate the little guy, but their clients frequently share only the crumbs from their attorneys’ bountiful tables. In one case involving faulty pipes, the lawyers for Alabama’s plaintiffs were awarded $38 million, and those for Tennessee’s plaintiffs got $45 million; all the homeowners got was an 8 percent rebate toward the purchase of new pipes. When a cellular-service provider settled a dispute over billing practices, class members were entitled to $15 vouchers, while their attorneys got $1.25 million. A recent Colorado case over long waits for phone service resulted in a settlement providing an average of $60 for each class member-and $7.2 million for their counsel. In the 1994 settlement of the Bank of Boston case involving escrow accounts, attorneys’ fees actually imposed a net cost on plaintiffs: The lawyers received $8.5 million, and each aggrieved customer’s account was debited by $90 to pay the legal fees.

So where does all this money go? Right back into the system that created it. Peter Angelos, Maryland’s preeminent plaintiffs’ attorney, who is suing for 25 percent of the state’s $4.4 billion share of the tobacco settlement, has filed suits in four states against the wireless industry, alleging that it failed to protect consumers against possible radiation hazards. (Angelos contributed nearly $1 million to national Democratic candidates in 2000.) Mississippi’s Richard Scruggs, whose firm was awarded $1 billion under the tobacco settlement, has filed suits against manufacturers of Ritalin. In June, the Los Angeles Times reported that many lawyer veterans of the tobacco wars are again hooking up with state attorneys general, this time to take on the pharmaceutical industry for allegedly blocking access to cheaper generic drugs.

AND THIS:

Welcome to ‘Tort Hell’ – West Virginia, that is. A ‘doctors crisis’ – doctor shortage in state caused by legal atmosphere

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_16_53/ai_76915715/?tag=content;col1

There’s no free market for justice when lawyers write the laws, lawyers alone get to argue the cases in courts, lawyers stack the juries, and lawyers serve as the referees (i.e. judges) – plus lawyers are a regulated industry (i.e. guild) in which entry is artificially restricted. Government is up to its armpits when it comes to the “justice market” tilting the playing field and rigging the playing rules.

What tort reformers are trying to do is to restore equity to the boundary conditions for justice market.

Does this start to make sense?