[Voltage]

"There are other obstetrics programs in the community," Mr. Kerr added, "but you want to have a baby as close to home as you can, in as comfortable a place as you can."

Just have the trial lawyer come to your house and deliver the babe!

The downside..he would demand 20% of the babe's future earnings.

[Vidalia]

" The roots of the crisis are complex."

No, the root of the problem is called a failed imitation socialist system of health care that almost killed the "pay as you play" system whereby people only went to the doctor when necessary.

The socialist harried health system has turned physicians' offices and town clinics into "social centers for "super-pseudo-hypochondriacs".

The paperwork alone is 30% of the costs of doing business...

[liberallarry]

Our health care system is not delivering the goods.

A long-time friend who was a paramedic for many years says the situation is much worse than described in the article. There are more problems than just malpractice insurance. Specialists and specialized machines are very costly. Our education system delivers new doctors who are heavily in debt. Too many are motivated by things other than interest in medicine. The public has been misled into believing that free medicine is a God-given right. And so on.

It's worth looking at other systems. There's some indication that we might benefit from expanding the clinic system. It might be worth-while finding out why Europeans don't think doctors should be sued, and why French doctors seem satisfied making less money - for example.

[ccmay]

The roots of the crisis are complex.

No, they are not. The roots of the crisis are as follows:

• Patients who expect a perfect outcome every time
• Ignorant, suggestible jurors
• Filthy piratical trial lawyers
• Legislators who are beholden to the contributions of filthy piratical trial lawyers

See? That was easy.

-ccm

[Taiwan Bocks]

Here in Taiwan I have had excellent care for a number of medical situations.
I've asked physicians, most of whom have studied in America, why the one tenth price of U.S. care?
They say it is mostly due to the legal and insurance costs.

They might add, Americans have taken too much time to fight for rectifying this gross embarrassment on such a great country.

The care is no better and you pay through the teeth.

[Glenn]

To finance coverage, said Elonna Rejniak, the clinic's office manager, the local government is going to ask voters in November to approve a special, one-time tax on their homes and businesses.

Great. Now we're going to use taxes to transfer money from the hard working people to the insurance companies and the lawyers. What a country.

[blam]

Doctors of all stripes are fleeing Mississippi because of the high number of malpractice suits and the enormous awards.

[doug from upland]

When trial attorneys succeed in shutting down all business, who will they be able to sue?