[Founding Father]

The government is driving drs out of business (and by the way, just because a doc says it, doesn't make it true). Take gov't $ out of the health care system and prices and costs will drop like a rock in water (same is true concerning college tuition too).

Basic economics, gov't $ skews supply/demand driving prices up.

I'd be curious as to how many freepers would run to a lawyer if they felt a doc had malpracticed on their child, spouse,etc. I bet the % would be embarassingly high for the so-called tort reform group.

[Mamzelle]

re: I'd be curious as to how many freepers would run to a lawyer if they felt a doc had malpracticed on their child, spouse,etc.))))

You know, I've witnessed one lawyer (a judge, who is a lawyer in a dress) destroy the life of a child in open disobedience to black-letter law. The law said she had a say in her future, but the judge wouldn't even allow her to speak. The child went from an A student on a scholarship track to failing and struggling with Mommy's Boyfriends. This lawyer can't be sued, and the world seems to keep on revolving.

Malpractice insurance was started by docs, did you know that? Because docs know they fail, and they wanted something in place to help the failures. But the system cannot support the lawyer parasites and the injured patients, too. The system cannot sustain verdicts that sound like the Gross National Products of small nations. When the docs work for the government, do you think the lawyers will give a hang? Do you think you'll have any protection?

[templar]

I bet the % would be embarassingly high for the so-called tort reform group.

Yeah, like about 100% maybe? Tort reform, for conservatives, is only supposed to apply to the other guy, like liberals with gun control.

[okie01]

"Basic economics, gov't $ skews supply/demand driving prices up."

Prices will rise, in order to absorb every cent of the available pool of money in the market. When government enlarges the pool, they distort the market -- and everybody ends up paying more.

And you are so, so correct about what those government $s have done to our health care system and college tuition -- the very two items incorporated in my standard lecture on the subject.