Posted on 09/03/2009 9:09:37 PM PDT by grundle
Since we are moving toward socialism with ObamaCare, the time has come to do the same with other professions—especially lawyers. Physician committees can decide whether lawyers are necessary in any given situation.
At a town-hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., last month, our uninformed lawyer in chief suggested that we physicians would rather chop off a foot than manage diabetes since we would make more money doing surgery. Then President Obama compounded his attack by claiming a doctor's reimbursement is between "$30,000" and "$50,000" for such amputations! (Actually, such surgery costs only about $1,500.)
Physicians have never been so insulted. Because of these affronts, I will gladly volunteer for the important duty of controlling and regulating lawyers. We physicians know much more about legal practice than lawyers do about medicine.
Following are highlights of a proposed bill authorizing the dismantling of the current framework of law practice and instituting socialized legal care:
*Contingency fees will be discouraged, and eventually outlawed, over a five-year period. Slick lawyers taking their "cut" smacks of a bookie operation.
*Government schedules of flat fees for each service, analogous to medicine's Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), will be issued. For example, any divorce will have a set fee of, say, $1,000, regardless of its simplicity or complexity.
*Discourage/eliminate specialization. Legal specialists with extra training and experience charge more money, contributing to increased costs of legal care, making it unaffordable for many.
*Electronic legal records. We should enter the digital age and computerize and centralize legal records nationwide.
*Ban legal advertisements.
*New government oversight. Government overhead to manage the legal system will include a cabinet secretary, commissioners, ombudsmen, auditors, assistants, czars and departments.
*Create a commission to study the diversity and geographic distribution of attorneys, with power to stipulate and enforce corrective actions to right imbalances.
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Spread the word. If Lawyers
think they are in the cross
hairs, they might cross “over”
when they see the light.
Oh! Please, please let me help! Please.....
These self proclaimed Gods love to keep the pot stirring. It helps their bottom line and keeps them in power.
I would love to do something with their bottoms, for sure. Govthug colonoscopys with an asbestos glove for all of them, before anyone else.
BTW, Did you notice that Harvard won the election....again? Coincidence...I'm sure.
Excellent!
INDEED.
[... These self proclaimed Gods love to keep the
pot stirring. It helps their bottom line and keeps
them in power...]
Aren’t most of our politicians “LAWYERS”???
Of course they won’t reform tort law.
(V8 Moment)
Actually, several of these are good ideas.
NOW....we’re ON TO SOMETHING!!!! Some enterprising young Republican in Congress needs to propose something similar!!!
Every one has a right to legal care!
The sad fact is many people are ignorant as to the fact that in many areas of law attorney fees are caped and are regulated.
Many state bars set the amounts for contingency fee maximums.
Same in federal court.
ALSO judges do have the power to review fee agreements.
I think the first step is to start forcing the closure of some of these diploma mill law schools. There are too many law students who have been sold a bill of goods as to the future job market.
why would you even need lawyers?
under socialized medicine, medical screw ups would have sovereign immunity. YOU CAN”T SUE.
Can you sue GM when the government owns the company?
Slaves have no rights.
Thus no need for lawyers to represent and enforce those rights.
it is called a public defender.
BTW cap and trade has a provision where lawyers can privatly sue polutors for attorney fees and costs for catching them. (ala the ADA)
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