GREED
Posted on 12/21/2009 8:44:57 AM PST by Shellybenoit
Many experts have pointed to tort reform as a key element of any effort to hold down the costs of health care:
Old Democratic presidential aspirant John Edwards won $175 million in judgments over a 12-year period suing doctors, hospitals and insurance companies, everyone but the candy stripers, over infant cerebral palsy cases allegedly caused by mishandled deliveries.
As the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists noted in a study in 2003, cerebral palsy could not be blamed on delivery trouble in the “vast majority” of cases. Using bad science, Edwards enriched himself by bankrupting innocent physicians. The effect is not restricted to insurance costs. Lawsuits cause doctors to run additional and possibly unessential procedures:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
GREED
I’ve seen an African Lion and I’ve seen a Lyin African.
Sadly, it appears the Bard may have been right...
Malpractice a Tiny Percentage of Health Care Costs
http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xchg/justice/hs.xsl/8686.htm
Not only that, tort reform is a state issue. 20 something states have already passed it. The feds have no business getting into it at all. It’s a state court matter.
Can we fix the link so folks don’t think they are linking to the Washington Examiner?
You didn’t read well. Its not only the Malpractice, its the FEAR of malpractice that causes some doctors to order extra tests.
Tanker the link says there are two sources, The examiner provided the information on the Congress, the Lid Provided the info on the President. And your problem is?
and it says on the bottom
Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com
Specifically, my problem is that your article is improperly source/linked and goes to a garbage blog that is soliciting tips/money.
Generally, my problem is the number of blog pimps coming to FR to post threads trying to attract hits to their blogs.
Obviously You didnt go to the blog and read the post, there half the information was original first of all, second of all you didn’t even read the Freep post because it said as much.
Have a great day, Blog Pimp. Apparently, management has no problem with this practice. Good enough. They can trade what FR once was for spam.
Done.
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