Michael Moore did a movie about health care because the cost of good health care has spiralled out of control. Funny, he gave trial lawyers a complete pass.
Did you know the USA is the ONLY country in the world that does not use the English based court system, where the loser pays the legal and other costs to the winning party. Guess what? No other country has the level of exccessive litigation, needless medical procedures, excessive malpractice insurance, courts paralyzed with frivolous law suits, etc, as we suffer with, in the USA.
Is our country too litigous?
PS did you know part of the fortune earned by John Edwards was based on a case where a plaintiff won the lottery (Edwards took a third or so) on a child-birth case- today, any woman who has a needless Cesarian, should thank John Edwards.
TheDude
yes it does
fsfa
Yes. If the loser had to pay, the number of lawsuits would fall off a cliff, but then how would scumbags like John Edwards get rich?
johndeere2510
first, Moore's movie was FICTION.
Short answer to your question: tort reform is the only way to control the cost of healthcare. so-called universal health care will only make it much, much worse.
The reason we have problems with healthcare is because the lawyers and politicians have screwed it up. let's not apply more of their meddling as a fix - say no to Hilary-care.
Tort reform eliminates the good doctors from getting sued for 80 million dollars over minor mistakes, driving up the costs of insurance, etc for everyone else
Stewie Griffin
No, the "tort reform" being advocated is designed for businesses to screw everyone even harder. Do you seriously believe that businesses are sued more than just a fraction of times they have raped people?
Nonetheless, if there was a court system like Germany's, where civil claims are handled in a manner similar to workmen's comp here, the system would be far more equitable. Yet businesses don't want that either because they are greedy and irresponsible.
His Divine Shadow
YES. Unfortunately, the current presidential candidates up for election will never address this issue. They are too busy going after non-issues like banning gay marriage, abortion, immigration, and global warming - things that have never changed, can't be changed, or shouldn't even be considered because they wouldn't make a damn bit of difference to the average american.
The current tort system is paralyzing medical research because people are afraid of making a drug like Celebrex that could hurt someone. Mistakes are necessary for progress to occur. It kills any chance for our kids to be kids because parents and teachers alike are terrified of lawyers suing if a kid gets hurt playing the way I did when I was young. And most importantly, consumers get their a-s-s kicked because when frivolous lawsuits against companies are settled out of court (since that is the least expensive way to handle it, even if the company is in the right), they pass the costs of that crap down to our lot.
It is a huge problem in our country and nobody will ever talk about it because it doesn't sell headlines like the aforementioned non-issues do.
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