Comments on: Tort reform? Try tort expansion

By: Be John Galt

Be John Galt — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:40:43 +0000

The Medical Profession Calls Obama Out…

Via Michelle Malkin, from Looking At The Left: Doctors Against Obamacare – Rally in D.C.:
On September 10, 2009, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals came to Washington, D.C. from across the country to show their opposition to Obamaca…

By: Socratease

Socratease — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:27:30 +0000

The Democrats suck, but the Republicans aren’t much better. They could have done something about tort reform when they were in power, but didn’t. It’s one thing to propose reform when you’re the minority party and there isn’t a chance in Hell of it passing, quite another when you have the capability to do it and don’t. That’s part of the reason why they’re now in the minority.

By: applebutter

applebutter — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:20:14 +0000

It’s just Obama and the Democrats giving their most lucrative constituency a big, wet, open-mouthed kiss.

I hope they like tongue.

By: Mervis Winter

Mervis Winter — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:40:00 +0000

Related parody: “Obama Plan Calls for Making Health Care System More Efficient by Having Trial Lawyers Provide Medical Services More Directly” http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-plan-calls-for-making-health-care.html

By: The Medical Profession Calls Obama Out | Be John Galt

The Medical Profession Calls Obama Out | Be John Galt — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:01:25 +0000

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By: gopmom

gopmom — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:16:52 +0000

how to encourage broader use of evidence-based guidelines. I want to work with the AMA so we can scale back the excessive defensive medicine that reinforces our current system,

What I get from this quote, now that I’ve read the death panel sections of proposed reform bills, is that doctors will not be allowed to try whatever they can try to help those truly ill. I find it ironic that we have all these TV shows that glorify doctors and nurses and their “throw the kitchen sink at it” theory of treatment when the reality will be that we no longer have options. The gov will produce a handbook that says “Treatment ABC is most often successful at treating “Condition XYZ” so you will be reimbursed for this treatment, nothing more. Oh, and it it doesn’t work, the patient will sue.

Risk assessment is the right of the informed patient, not a bureaucrat or a handbook.

By: tx2654

tx2654 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:47:58 +0000

More BLahblahblahblah as usual.

By: Franklyn

Franklyn — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:47:11 +0000

We have been there before thanks to Ted Kennedy. It is called an HMO. I know well how those work. I was having a problem with unexplained fevers. My doctor sent me to specialist for blood test that could not be performed in the office. That was as far as it went since I had apparently had all the test that I needed in their opinion or was allowed under their quota system. My doctor resigned in protest. He was one of those doctors who as BHO says he wants; that put patient safety first, but he really doesn’t. I went on and lived with the fevers and trying to figure out why I was having an ever increasingly difficult time dealing with the daily demands of my teaching. I saw other doctors; ones like Obama wants; the ones that give you a moment of face time, takes a guess at the problem, hand you a presription and the bill. A doctor who finds nothing wrong can not be held responsilbe for doing something wrong. The only difference under Obamacare is that you only see a nurse of a physicans assistent since there will always be a shortage of doctors.
In the end I was unable to continue to teach and that I had a serious medical condition could not be ignored. I went though a lot of doctors and endured about every test they have to give, many of them probably medically unneccersay, but neccesary to cover the doctors buts. It was my oncologist that found what was wrong. A simple shot given once a month would probably prevented the damage that is not fixable now. If that HMO doctor had been able to run just one more battery of blood test, he might have found it. I am a long way to from 65, but if Obama has his way, I guess I will be having that end of live conference, me and my dog.

By: TheAlamos

TheAlamos — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:22:47 +0000

instructred

Sourrryhhh (sound of Glenn Beck).

By: TheAlamos

TheAlamos — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:17:52 +0000

President Palin has instructred Pressident Obama to develop and implement TORT REFORM.

Pressident is following the President like a mad dog. Of course he has to make an obligatory “bark bark” against his master by saying death panel is a lie.

By: Maquis

Maquis — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:43:43 +0000

Don Henley was right: Let’s kill all the lawyers, kill ‘em tonight.

infidel4life on September 11, 2009 at 6:12 PM

Does that include our illustrious leader because after all, he’s a scumbag lawyer as well?

larvcom on September 11, 2009 at 7:32 PM

Constitutional “scholars” whose study of the sacred document gave them angst at it’s draconian limitations on tyrannical power, and restricts not at all their greedy grasping at our very lives, are at the very top of the list of evil-doers that must be dealt with.

By: Wingo

Wingo — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:45:25 +0000

Trial lawyers afflict the very entities that the liberal wing of the Democratic Party likes to demonize — the rich, corporations, the rich, doctors (remember Tonsil Vultures and Foot Rustlers?), the rich, etc. It’s an ideological as well as financial marriage.

You forgot to mention the fact that they produce nothing – another attribute of the profession that is dear to the left.

By: Dr. Charles G. Waugh

Dr. Charles G. Waugh — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:59:38 +0000

Tort reform? Try tort expansion

I’d settle for troll reform.

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:56:02 +0000

I think Tort Reform is another restriction on the free market.

If the AMA did not do such a godawful lousy job regulating itself, it would not be so easy to win a malpractice case.

If the award actually “shocked the conscience” the judge has the right to reduce it.

I can not sue my doctor, and I have been scared shitless every time I need to go underr for surgery.

By: Always To The Right

Always To The Right — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:18:02 +0000

Why ObamaCare Is Healthy … For Litigators….

Tort reform? Try tort expansion
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By: Soonerliberty

Soonerliberty — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:57:56 +0000

How different from liberals do you sound when you suggest tort reform to limit the free market’s ability to regulate itself? How often do we hear from liberals this or that would work better if we only had “sensible” regulation? This is what leads to big gov’t, and we hear this on a small gov’t board! This is how liberals will always defeat you. You advocate big gov’t in certain arenas but not others. So, the only difference between libs and cons is what type of big gov’t you want.

By: Blacksmith

Blacksmith — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:52:31 +0000

…
What is needed is:

–A “loser pays” tort system for medical injuries
…

rockmom on September 11, 2009 at 6:08 PM

That sounds good on paper, but I have a question on the applications. Does the plaintiff (read, “Their Ambulance-Chasing Shyster”) name a requested award, or is that value arrived at by the jury? I presume it currently varies by State. What’d be needed in addition to “loser pays” is to require that the plaintiff make known up front how much award they are looking for, instead of undefined and undeclared “punitive damages.” That would lend real teeth to the “loser pays” system. Expanding that policy to all lawsuits would also eliminate the recurring “jackpot” serial-suitfilers and other frivolous suits.

By: larvcom

larvcom — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:45:16 +0000

If I were a doctor, I would refuse to treat lawyers or their kin. Let them suffer and die for a few generations. Perhaps they’ll just resort to suing the Catholic Church, either way these parasites can learn to feed off something else.

By: alliebobbitt

alliebobbitt — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:45:11 +0000

Great cartoon. It reminds me of the RNC ad about wolves chasing Palin.

By: Lou Budvis

Lou Budvis — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:44:27 +0000

“Loser pays” only hurts middle class people’s ability to bring a suit b/c they actually have something to lose. The judgement proof plaintiff, however, will be emboldened to bring suit b/c if they win, they’ll get attorney’s fees on top of their award. Thus, in many suits, “loser pays” will actually work to the ADVANTAGE of the judgment-proof plaintiff and to the DISADVANTAGE of small businesses.

By: larvcom

larvcom — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:32:12 +0000

Don Henley was right: Let’s kill all the lawyers, kill ‘em tonight.

infidel4life on September 11, 2009 at 6:12 PM

Does that include our illustrious leader because after all, he’s a scumbag lawyer as well?

By: Lou Budvis

Lou Budvis — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:21:44 +0000

This is one where I part ways with the GOP. CA has had a pain and suffering cap on medical malprac for years and premiums have done nothing but go up. Plus, if one of these quacks does you harm, good luck finding a lawyer to take your case.

By: sonnyspats1

sonnyspats1 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:10:02 +0000

I know a whole group of people that will be happy to relieve Acorn of their census duties. They will be in Washington DC tomorrow. No need to give you their address. Just be at Freedom Plaza at 9am and your sure to meet them!!!

By: liquidflorian

liquidflorian — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:08:53 +0000

Les in NC on September 11, 2009 at 6:53 PM

Thanks!

By: drjohn

drjohn — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:06:21 +0000

Guys, I told you this.

Limiting the number of tests we can do and leaving the present tort laws intact creates a “shooting fish in a barrel” scenario.

The day Obama acquiesces to tort reform is the day he resigns.