YOU have a point about the trial lawyers, however, I think they are a part of the attitude that gov't should take care of every single little thing that goes wrong....when individuals should be looking out for themselves. The individual's responsibility has been totally removed from health care.....as far as SS I think we agree - it was NOT set up for retirement.
It is not my hope that Government to be involved in every little thing. In Health Care it's the Insurance companies who control it. The cost of Health Care has been driven up by the law suits. So the insurance companies have bneen forced to put all kinds of protections and formalities into the system to prevent these law suits. I loom at insurance companies much like a viscious circle. They collect insurance premiums from everybody while instituting all kinds of regulations to prevent them from the lawsuits we are paying them to protect us from.
The Government has very little defense from the insurance companies or the trial lawyers. In Short... It's a mess. If I was able to enact tort reform I would take up the Canadian legal system that states.... If an attorney files a lawsuit against someone, The Attorney must be prepared to pay the defense costs of the person or Company the Attorney has filed suit against if the Plaintiff loses the case.
This approach would stop 95% of the bogus lawsuits filed by opportunistic trial lawyers who have nothing to lose