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Surprise! Health Care Bill Contains Massive Gift to Trial Lawyers
National Review ^ | July 17 2009 | [Mark Hemingway]

Posted on 07/18/2009 8:10:01 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

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To: Behind Liberal Lines

this thing must be stopped......the bomb must be stooped


41 posted on 07/18/2009 4:36:58 PM PDT by The Wizard (Democrat Party: a criminal enterprise)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
It's no surprise whatsoever that they don't want anyone to actually read the bill before the votes.
42 posted on 07/18/2009 7:43:04 PM PDT by highlander_UW
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43 posted on 07/20/2009 2:18:24 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Not just trial lawyers -- ACORN is in there, too.

# Page 472 Lines 14-17 PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORG. 1 monthly payment 2 a community-based org. Like ACORN? #tcot #sgp37 minutes ago from TweetDeck

# Pg 469 - Community Based Home Medical Services=Non profit orgs. Hello, ACORN Medical Svcs here!!? #tcot #sgp

44 posted on 07/20/2009 2:19:57 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: A_Former_Democrat

No, McCain blew it... Palin tried to sound the warning and his people told her to shut up.... this is in stuff that has been released the last month or so..... like her comments on Ayers — they told her to say that and then pulled the rug out from under her when she did what they told her to do and tried to claim she went rogue on them; in fact emails have surfaced that show she was only doing exactly what she was told to do.


45 posted on 07/20/2009 2:21:58 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Kevin in California
Check this site, this guy has gone through the first 500 pages and has twittered page by page and it's bad, really, really bad:

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46 posted on 07/20/2009 2:23:14 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Kansas58

All insurance companies have a right of equitable subrogation. If you are hurt in a car wreck and your insurance foots the bill for your medical care and then you successfully sue or get a settlement from the defendant’s insurance company, from your settlement you pay your insurance company back what it paid out. If a third party caused the injuries and is paying off, why would your own insurance not be entitled to reimbursement from the proceeds? Otherwise you would be compensated for the say medical costs twice.


47 posted on 07/20/2009 2:38:29 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: shankbear
I agree with you!
I am only stating that Medicare and Medicaid do EXACTLY the same thing in such circumstances.
However, the Left attacked Walmart for going after a court settlement, after Walmart had already paid all of the medical bills.

Please go back and check the posts, I am not in disagreement with you on this.

That was another poster.

48 posted on 07/20/2009 2:44:49 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Kansas58

I must have clicked the wrong one. I have had to explain this to a zillion clients and they don’t get it.


49 posted on 07/20/2009 2:58:31 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: shankbear
In fact, I think the lawyer in the Walmart case could have done a better job, for his client, if he had approached Walmart before hand -— the lawyer screwed up, not Walmart, but Walmart got beat up when they went after their legal right to subrogation.

The government does exactly the same thing, but that never makes the news.

50 posted on 07/20/2009 3:19:03 PM PDT by Kansas58
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The President spoke for a few minutes, then took about 15 minutes of direct questions. In his opening remarks, he said that now was a critical time for the bill, and that we’re closer to passage than we’ve been in the last 50 years. Those who are opposing have offered no credible alternative but the status quo, which he termed “unacceptable”. He hoped that the blogs would help him in “debunking myths,” for example the notion that this bill, which is entirely paid for as a package, would spread record deficits. He said that the default position in Washington is one of inertia, and that pressure must be kept on members of Congress - not Republicans, but members of Congress - to move the process forward. He made sure to highlight - as did David Axelrod in a short Q&A afterwards - the words of Sen. Jim DeMint, calling health care Obama’s “Waterloo.” Clearly that will be used by the White Hosue as a badge of honor and a rallying cry in the weeks ahead, because it evokes the same concept as the leader of the GOP Rush Limbaugh saying he hopes Obama fails.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/obama-blogger-call-on-health-care-by.html


51 posted on 07/20/2009 7:38:18 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/07/20/some-good-news-from-olympia-snowe.aspx


52 posted on 07/20/2009 8:02:25 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Clock King

MOre nightmarish stuff...it’s been a day full of it.


53 posted on 07/21/2009 6:12:40 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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