[Temple Owl]

It appears that the medical crisis in Pennsylvania is going to get a lot worse. Thank tort lawyers for it.

[Mamzelle]

re: the doctors seemed disorganized about their political agenda.)))

LOL--they so badly need to unionize, it's pathetic. But it's not part of their artist/scientist/entrepeneurial mindset.

Penn has the distinction among states of steadily losing doctors, in real numbers. Every year, Penn educates docs who then leave the state. Docs retire and relocate and no one steps in to replace them.

But the statehouse is run by goons and thugs, pure and simple. No hope for reform.

[joesnuffy]

The problem is Medical Schools...stranglehold on who can and cannot practice medicine..
Having a 4.0 isnt necessarily indicative of who will or will not be a good or ethical physician.

There is a potential for many people- well qualified- who simply cannot get in....

If they allowed Physican Assistants and Nurse Practioners into specialities as they have Nurse Anesthisists...they wouldnt have so many shortages...

That and rid America of tort lawyers...

imo

[Temple Owl]

ping

[tdadams]

All those who've read Atlas Shrugged, raise you hand. This should come as no surprise.

[swampfox98]

It is interesting reading all the posts to your article. What I see here is so much damage has been done to your state by lawyers and Democrat politicians. (especially Hillary) Maybe I am stupid, but don't voters ever learn who is their most rabid enemy - the Democrats and Liberals, and ever vote for conservatives to replace them? Pennsylvania voted for Gore, didn't they? That must make people like yourself who are in the know almost crazy.

And here it comes again, John Edwards will surely be the vice-President, with either Kerry or Hillary - and I put my money on Hillary, which must make it doubly horrendous for you.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMPPPPPPP!!!!

[Our man in washington]

I have a friend who is about to deliver a baby. She lives in Philadelphia. The only Ob/Gyn she could find lives an hour's drive away.

She is thus adding extra risk to her life both in terms of driving and having reduced ccess to care. If we assume that many women in Pennsylvania are in the same situation, we can statistically expect a few extra deaths this year due to traffic accidents and medical problems related to delay in receiving care.

I pointed this out to a leftist friend who defends jury's rights to give whatever amount they want to give. He immediately ended the conversation.

Leftist policies kill. Creative conservatives need to think of ways to dramatize that fact.

[JohnBovenmyer]

You excerpted out one other interesting bit:

This just in! Last week we revealed that Howard Dean stiffed the Brown Bag Deli in West Des Moines, Iowa for $963. The good news is that Dean has now paid the bill. The appreciative deli owner has named a bologna and cheese sandwich after the "I Had A Scream" candidate.

[nmh]

Incompetent doctors only fuel the tort situation.