Posted on 07/06/2009 5:40:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
As a lawyer who has spent many years defending frivolous lawsuits, both as an in-house general counsel and outside counsel, and as a former member of the McCain-Palin civil justice reform advisory committee, it is clear to me that we do need rationing to contain health care costs — lawyer rationing.
Based on my years in the real world of tort lawsuits, largely spent defending automotive product cases against General Motors and Suzuki, the inescapable conclusion I reached years ago is that most lawsuits involving personal injuries or health conditions are not caused by product defects or professional negligence.
Simply put, most often tort lawsuits are frivolous in that they result from too many lawyers chasing too few bona fide cases, and too many plaintiffs, because of the painless contingent fee agreement with their friendly trial lawyer, rolling the dice and filing a lawsuit on a meritless case because they have no skin in the game.
If the Obama administration and our legislative leaders were really interested in lowering health care costs, the all-too-obvious anecdotal and survey evidence points to billions of dollars of annual savings that could result from dramatically limiting the costs of unnecessary medical tests and practices that are forced on doctors due to liability fears stemming from our U.S. tort system.
Peter Orszag, director of the Office Of Management and Budget, recently spelled out the administration's prescription for higher quality-lower cost health care. It involves "four key steps": health information technology, more research to cull out the most effective treatments, prevention and wellness efforts, and targeted financial incentives for providers.
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Lawyers basically need to be ranked below pedophiles by polite society, and nothing good will come until that happens.
You wanna lower the cost of health care? Impeach Obama. Biden’s too stupid to screw it up and at least he doesn’t hate America (well, at least AS MUCH as The First Thug).
a lawyer being president ought to be as rare as a general being president
President Petraeus. Has a nice ring to it.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY the democrat party will EVER agree to tort reform.
Res ipsa loquitur.
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