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| 2004/7/14 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:32267 Activity:insanely high |
7/12 Malpractice maelstrom
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040713-080936-3867r.htm
Vote Kerry-Edwards!
\_ what is your point...that it should be OK for neurosurgeons to
remove as many cervical disks as they want?
\_ my point is if you think channeling children born with CP to
win malpractice settlements is good for the US medical industry
vote Kerry-Edwards. Is that so hard to understand?
\_ Penalties for malpractice are good for the medical profession
(not the same as medical industry) as it provides an incentive
to not screw up. Manipulating the emotions of a jury is
standard good lawyering. If Edwards has been a robo-lawyer
you could have complained that he was failing his clients.
\_ And if I close my eyes, all the bad things go away!
Penalties for malpractice is one thing, manipulating
jurys to punish the innocent is completely different.
In this link, one guy destroyed a doctor's life, and
killed hundrends by forceing all the neurosurgeons out
of the state. Woohoo! Go Lawyers!
\_ compare with a guy who lied to go to war to settle old score?
sure.
\_ Wow, this is the only criterion allowed? Bush has driven
this country into a fucking ditch, asshole.
\_ How so? Funny since I consider all of the problems the
result of leftist policy.
\_ yes all bad things come from clinton, all good things
from bush.
\_ While conservatives have made mistakes, they
have also manage to do things right from time
to time. The leftists have *never* done anything
right. Some of us vote for the lesser to two evils.
\_ nah, clinton got everything right. bush got
everything wrong. compared to bush, everything
is a lesser evil.
\_ Which ditch is that? The economy is fine, there were
a hundred reasons to invade Iraq, he picked a big one
to push with, but there were plenty more. Since prety
much everyone thought Saddam had WMD, it's hardly a
lie. Maybe he was wrong, but so was everyone else.
I keep hearing how Bush has destroyed the country, and
I don't agree with everything he does, but I see
little base for your accusations.
\_ nah, everyone knows bush says iraq has wmd.
everyone gives what he says a some measure of
credibility because he is the US president and
has the cia, the supposedly most technologically
advanced intelligence agency in the world. now,
he and his subordinates have been shown to be
liars. neither the US presidency nor the cia
has any credibility in the world anymore.
economy is at best sputtering even with the
historically low interest rate and huge fiscal
stimulus, with record budget deficit and
trade deficit, rising oil prices, threat of
inflation looming, threat of housing bubble
bursting, it's much better not to have the huge
drain of money into the Iraq sinkhole, which
is likely to continue for a few more years.
\_ Who gives a damn about what the world
thinks? Most of the world is living on
handouts from the US taxypayer, the rest
is a festering socialist mess. And when
the world gets into trouble, guess who
gets to pick up the pieces, US.
As far as Iraq is concerned, I guess you
are one of those guys who would have
prefered that Saddam got a NK nuke and
gave it to Bin Laden to drop of @ JFK
or something before we took the threat
seriously and started negotitating with
them.
\_ Uh... because they provide us intelligence
and help us catch terrorists...
\_ "Most of the world is living on handouts from the
US taxypayer." Are they? Last I chacked, aid
to foreign governments was a tiny part of the
Federal budget. I seem to recall most of the
world works for a living. But your theory is
good too.
\_ Maybe we should do like Pat B. say and
complete isolate ourselves from the world
for a few yrs and see how the world gets
along w/o the us market to export things
to. The fact that most of the world has
free access to our market is a huge
subsidy by the taxpayer (we are passing
up all the money from tariffs, &c.)
Don't forget all the "loans" we made
and forgiven over the years. Most of
the world would in shambles if we didn't
keep it solvent by forgiving loans and
such over the years.
\_ go ahead, try it. If the US isolates
itself economically from the world,
the country that will be in economic
shambles would be the US itself.
\_ Don't forget we depend on other parts
of the world for oil. That has been
main reason we have all these conflicts
in the Middle East.
\_ Actually, we are in a shitload of debt from
loaning from the rest of the world, mostly
through selling treasuries. 1.4 trillion,
IIRC. Just go to economist and add up the
foreign reserves of countries like China,
Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea, India, Spore and HK,
and you will get a rough idea. As for
Saddam, much better to neutralize him the
way we neutralized Gaddafi of Libya.
It takes a little patience and a little
diplomacy, but hey, that's what adults are
good at.
\_ We neutralized Gaddafi only after we
invaded Iraq and scared him shitless.
\_ that's a stupid theory the bush
admin put out.
\_ Its what happened. We invade,
he rolls over.
\_ we haven't seen N. Korea roll
over. What about Iran and Syria?
In fact, some these are more
hostile than before.
\_ Desperation. They know
better than to try
*anything* though, because
the result will not be some
stupid protest in the UN,
it will be total destruction.
\_ Iran is always been
relatively benign. But
in case of NK, they could
do some SERIOUS damage
to Asian economy before
you and your 7 carriers
arrive. That is assuming
they don't have nukes
yet.
\_ I am amazed how many people
bought the stupid theory.
Gaddafi didn't roll over when
we bombed his home and almost
killed him (got his infant
daughter instead). why would
he suddenly roll over because of
iraq?
\_ zzzzzz
\_ Sounds like a deviated septrum. Let's operate!
\_ yea, even deviated septrum makes a more interesting topic
than the above.
\_ Septum.
\_ septrum. search google. |
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| www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040713-080936-3867r.htm Illinois has become a malpractice minefield for physicians, especially those in high-risk specialties. Here's a particularly notable example: Several years ago, Dr. Lenard Rutkowski, a neurosurgeon in the Chicago suburb of Joliet, faced a malpractice lawsuit. Months later, the patient complained of pain and discomfort in his neck. After years of litigation, the lawsuit resulted in a $56 million judgment against Dr. Rutkowski, far over and beyond his $1 million in insurance coverage. Rutkowski's office furniture, home furniture, company car and office building. A lien was placed on his house, and his checking account and IRAs were frozen. Rutkowski was forced to file for bankruptcy not only on behalf of his corporation, but also for himself. Rutkowski's nightmare, the last neurosurgeons in southern Illinois tendered their resignations as of May As one doctor put it: "You could almost hear the pitter-patter of neurosurgeons leaving Illinois." According to Ted Kanellakes of the Illinois State Neurosurgical Society, virtually the entire southern half of Illinois now lacks access to neurosurgeons, which means that patients don't have access to care for head trauma, aneurysms and brain tumors. Skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates, along with the possibility of losing one's home and assets at the whim of a jury, are prompting the mass exodus. The American Medical Association reports some troubling trends as a result: Fewer physicians now enter high-risk specialties; those who do tend to avoid states, like Illinois, with sky-high insurance premiums. The good news is that in states with caps on damage awards, like California, insurance rates are relatively stable. Both Mr Edwards and Mr Kerry, who have taken in millions from trial lawyers, have repeatedly voted against limiting malpractice lawsuits. The Kerry campaign Web site, in characteristically ambiguous fashion, informs us: "The Kerry plan will hold down malpractice premiums by requiring an impartial review of a claim before an individual could file suit and by eliminating punitive damages except in egregious cases. Kerry's plan will not put a cap on legitimate damage awards." Since juries deem which claims are "legitimate" and which cases are "egregious," not Mr Kerry or Mr Edwards, one can easily infer that "The Kerry plan" offers no reform. |