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To: LindyBill who wrote (310335)	6/17/2009 8:39:41 AM
From: jrhana	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

You will never see the plaintiff's bar doing anything to reduce physicians salaries. Actually just the opposite because physicians who make a lot of money can afford to pay very high malpractice insurance premiums. So why kill the goose that laid the golden egg? The plaintiff's bar controls the democrats and the democrats rule the roost. The plaintiff's bar has zero interest in any true medical reform. They make a fortune on it as it is after all. But you get a sick system where (some) doctors are making a huge pile of money while running around scared that it will be taken away from them. So they spend their time and energy hiding their assets rather than taking care of their patients. It has actually been the republican inspired HMOs that have worked to significantly limit physician incomes. As there are less and less rich physicians, the prospect for bounty by the plaintiff's bar in suing physicians is becoming limited. As these guys are no dummies, the big guns in the plaintiff's bar have simply moved their sights over to bigger fish, the drug companies. Why waste your time suing doctors for millions when you can get billions by suing the pharmaceutical industry? One thing is certain, the plaintiff's bar will emerge victorious. He who pays the piper calls the tune. <He is calling on doctors, insurers, and drug companies to make great sacrifices to bring about universal coverage. The truth is that a government-run, universal health care system..... would cut reimbursements to hospitals, doctors, and drug companies.... The president is not going to touch tort reform as long as trial lawyers remain the largest contributor to the Democratic Party. The fix is in. This is not the new politics of change but the very old politics of pay and play. The trial bar is paying, and Obama is playing along.......... The only conclusion one can reach from the president's AMA speech is that he is not really serious about "fixing" health care. He is not serious when he calls on "all players" to make sacrifices. He is not serious about saving $300 billion on health care expenses. He is not really serious about fixing anything. But he is really serious about politics.>

To: LindyBill who wrote (310335)	6/17/2009 1:37:53 PM
From: Geoff Altman	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793955

Obama simply slammed the door on any discussion of tort reform. This is irony at it's best.... people fought hard to do away with slavery and yet our first black president is little more than a slave with many masters: Tort Lawyers Unions Progressive boobs Virually any group that gave to get him elected.... Obeyme is perfectly willing to 'listen' to all solutions to our healthcare 'crisis' uh, er, umm, that is, unless any of the said solutions are detrimental to any of the 'groups' that threw money at him....... What an ethical guy!