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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: DavesM who wrote (256434)5/17/2002 10:09:51 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Hi DavesM,

Re: Are you in favor of limiting malpractice awards?

Absolutely. The Dutch have a much more sensible approach than we do. They have legislated schedules of payments for malpractice, which eliminates most of the profit motivation for trial lawyers, and prevents the runaway juries we're forced to contend with here. What I don't favor is the sort of curbs that the likes of Steve Forbes have in mind, because Forbes seems basically willing to absolve the worst of ethical and moral lapses of corporate/professional wrongdoers because they are members of the right class. There has to be a middle ground where victims can be compensated, and practitioners feel that they aren't threatened with runaway malpractice insurance costs if they perform to a reasonable standard of care.

Re: My guess is most of those countries that have "control" of their "Nationalized" healthcare costs are engaging in rationing of healthcare

Exactly. There's no other way to do it. Triage is a permanent feature of the health care industry. In countries like Great Britain and Canada, the trade off is time vs. money. In the US the tradeoff is one class versus another. Which is the better system? I can't decide.They're certainly both less than ideal.

-Ray
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