John Edwards, Mesothelioma Man, and Health Care Reform

Ameican Thinker ^ | Feb. 20, 2010 | Ralph Alter

[libstripper]

It has been fairly well-demonstrated that John Edwards is a pretty-boy philanderer married to a condescending harridan willing to go to any lengths to acquire stationery with the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue imprint. But what do we know about the bag-man behind the elaborate cover-up scheme designed to keep the sleeping bloodhounds of the Beltway media at bay?

[libstripper]

This shows how completely the trial lawyers have corrupted the Democrats. When it comes to Obama, it's abundantly clear that he will allow any corruption of the justice and Federal regulatory systems as long at it benefits his cronies and supporters. All we need to do is look at the AGW scam, the total illegal fovoritism for the unions in the auto industry bankruptcies, the New Black Panther case, and this horrible asbestos litigation. Worst of all it means federal agencies that are supposed to be objective watchdogs are being corrupted and perverted to the point where it is impossible to believe anything any of them says.

[Brilliant]

I’ve noticed a couple of interesting things about John Edwards: 1) He has poor taste in women, and 2) His women have poor taste in men.

[freespirited]

All this talk about tens of millions of people not having healthcare (a lie BTW) reminds me that far more lack access to the legal system.

Unless you are very well off, or poor enough to get pro bono help, you are pretty much locked out of the legal system—absent the kind of claim that someone will take on contingency. You cant say that about healthcare.

[Farmer Dean]

Isn’t Edwards the POS that pretended to channel a dead baby during closing arguements in a big bucks civil trial?

[Lorianne]

ouch!

[arthurus]

Every regulatory agency will be taken over by the industry it regulates. Personnel are always drawn from the target industry after the first staffing with idealists because that is where the knowledge and expertise is. These people coming from industry have expectations that their careers within that industry are not over and most will have pensions from that industry and still have stock, even if in “blind” trusts.

[Hot Tabasco]

Back around 1980 after my plant in Detroit laid off literally hundereds of employees and sold our wheel and brake division, our workers comp. dept. was deluged with literally hundreds of WC claims........almost all of them were from the same legal group who had ties to our UAW Local..........

I'm sure it was just a coincidence.....

[BerryDingle]

Isn’t Edwards the POS that pretended to channel a dead baby during closing arguements in a big bucks civil trial?

Yes. It was still alive though. He was nicknamed the "fetus whisperer".

[Williams]

The article is accurate except for one obfuscation. The author sort of blends the run of the mill asbestos exposure case with mesothelioma, which is a devastating fatal cancer most likely caused by asbestos.

I was involved in defending asbestos cases long ago, and his description of how the plaintiffs ran the run of the mill cases is accurate.

But it was always my understanding mesothelioma is quite another matter.

[Buddygirl]

Ping!

[kenavi]

All this talk about tens of millions of people not having healthcare (a lie BTW) reminds me that far more lack access to the legal system.

Great analogy! BHO should propose a tax on lawyers to fund a public option so that everyone can afford to sue.

[pioneerstakethearrows]

An excellent book, fiction, to read describing this disgraceful legal practice of class-action lawsuits, is KING OF TORTS, by John Grisham. You’ll hate them all by the end.

[MitchellC]

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[lwd]

If pulmonologists wouldn't diagnose asbestosis so liberally, the trial lawyers would be out of business. This is the problem in my opinion. The lawyers are only representing what the doctors say is wrong with their clients. The defense attorneys need to go after these doctors without mercy but they won't because they want the game to continue just as much as anyone since their pockets are lined by defending asbestos mfgs.

The whole system is corrupt. The best chance for reform was blocked by the dems back in 2001(?) when Republicans wanted to setup a trust to evaluate claims.

[PghBaldy]

True.