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To: cuban leaf

I understand. However, I’m speaking from my viewpoint of being a medical equipment repairman so many decades ago during the heyday of the onslaught of government intervention and the rise of the lawyer brigand.

When you slap the moniker “medical” on it, you open yourself up to a plethora of potential claims from a massive cabal of daytime TV lawyer group advertisers that are BEGGING for someone to come forth and sign with them because they had this device, that practice, that medical implant - whatever used on them. BILLIONS of dollars of added liability.

It is tort and government regulations that drives up the price, not competition, not cheating, not relative worth. Those willing to go the distance and put up with the regulations, the liability and the other roadblocks reap the rewards.


26 posted on 09/25/2013 6:25:08 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

When you slap the moniker “medical” on it, you open yourself up to a plethora of potential claims from a massive cabal of daytime TV lawyer group advertisers that are BEGGING for someone to come forth and sign with them because they had this device, that practice, that medical implant - whatever used on them. BILLIONS of dollars of added liability.


Yep. That’s one reasons ladders are more expensive than they should be. In the conversation with my doctor while he was snipping me back in the late 80’s he said that even with no claims against him, his malpractice insurance went from $6k a year to around $60k a year in the space of two years. That’s not inflation. And the patients and their insurance companies pay for that. It’s one reason health care and health insurance are so expensive and something that really DOES need to be address.

The function of government is to protect our borders and protect us from each other. This is where the government could get involved. Protect patients from shady health care poviders and protect legitimate health care providers from frivolous legal action.


39 posted on 09/25/2013 6:51:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Gaffer

It is tort and government regulations that drives up the price, not competition, not cheating, not relative worth. Those willing to go the distance and put up with the regulations, the liability and the other roadblocks reap the rewards.


I’m 100% on board with that statement. I agree.


40 posted on 09/25/2013 6:54:03 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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