COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (Jan. 5) -- President Bush pressured Congress Wednesday to pass legislation limiting jury awards for medical malpractice, saying the legal system favors attorneys who file baseless cases that drive up the cost of health care. Source -AOL News
This is the first paragraph of the news report, you can find the rest online. The problem I have with this idea is that the cost of health care isn't what is going up. It is the cost of insurance that is going up. As usual the insurance companies and the government are hand in hand. If insurance was a struggling business, I might understand why they would need help. You know, and I know that insurance is one of the biggest companies in the country. They have so much money that we could all sue them for $100,000 and it wouldn't cost any of them even a limosine, much less than food and shelter. Under the guise of health care, George W. Bush is trying to scare you into believing the hospitals will not be able to help you if malpractice suits continue. What he should be doing is denouncing insurance companies for amassing large profits. Insurance is a necessity in todays world, yet there are no regulations limiting the capital that they gain. Boo-hoo, the insurance companies are not making as much money...they aren't losing money. This robbery is going to lead to our destruction. If an insurance company wants my sympathy, why not suspend billing for a while? Just sit atop the money that they have already amassed, and wait for the day that it needs to be used. Why is the passing around of money have anything to do with keeping people healthy? Don't they realize that their own robbery depends on working Americans be healthy? What if only the rich can afford health care? Who is going to be alive to do their dirty work? Who is going to write their speeches? Who is going to build their limosines? Who is going to build their mansions?
The foolish notion that we all have an opportunity to be rich is a joke. Even if all the masses were to bring themselves to the level of the capitalists, and high paid politicians...There would still be people that were enormously more wealthy. We could drop the price of everything by 50% and we'd still live the same. We could double the price of everything and we'd still live the same. Double the employees pay, double the price of food, double the price of gas...We'd still be living the same. So why do we so willingly accept inflation? Because we feel like we make more money anyway. The larger the dollar amounts, the larger margin between the rich and the poor. Five percent of everything you buy in Massachusetts goes to state taxes. So if you are paying $10,000 for a car that's $500 in tax. If you pay $20,000, that's $1000. The more we pay for everything, the better they make out.
It is this thinking that has gotten us into this trouble, and it is the law-suits that are the battle ground for the fight against the system. They have been robbing us for years. Frivolous lawsuits are like unions. They hurt the system, but they will never bring it down. That is not to say they should stop because it is important training to help citizens band together to try to stop this madness.
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Its all about managing risk. Bush wants to tell the corporations not to worry about practicing bad behavior, he'll get the lawyers off their back. He's telling YOU that when you deal with Big Business, you are on your own. I'm all for the elimination of nuisance lawsuits, but the lawsuit is the only leverage the consumer has against big business.
Ten years ago, Oakland was destroyed by fire. When property owners put in claims under 150K they were denied. They had to sue - sue for benefits they had already paid for.
again...you are right on point...I hope people don't think I paid you to put out your ideas.
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