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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (72530)	9/23/2009 10:36:37 AM
From: jrhana	5 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224887

Completely untrue. I've seen dozens of bogus cases aggressively pursued. The plaintiff's lawyer uses the threat of a jury trail to force settlements. In fact when a case was settled for trifling amounts like 50-100 thousand, this was considered overwhelming evidence that the doctor did nothing wrong. The company I worked for used to have million dollar policies on everyone with another million dollars for the companies. The lawyers of course discovered this two million dollar pot of honey and began suing like crazy. So this solution was easy. Drop the insurance to $250,000. Magically the number of lawsuits dropped down. Many doctors just dropped their coverage of course. When your insurance costs more than your coverage that makes sense. When the premium is $150,000 for $100,000 of coverage why bother with insurance? It is impossible to practice emergency room medicine and not get sued. Everybody got sued. A day without a lawsuit was a good day. But as the insurance coverage became less, the game changed. The big gun guys stopped suing us as much and switched their sights over to the big pocket drug companies. So we were mainly sued by nickel and dime slime balls out of diploma mill law schools. The difference was they would get smaller settlements. But the process was just as ugly. A crazy and sick game. But one of survival for the doctor. Because all these bogus lawsuits follow you around for your entire life. The doctor is always guilty. The facts don't matter.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (72530)	9/23/2009 10:39:02 AM
From: JakeStraw	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224887

Unscrupulous, greedy lawyers helped make health care as expensive as it is... Q: What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A: A good start.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (72530)	9/23/2009 10:40:26 AM
From: d[-_-]b	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224887

Taking a medical malpractice case to court is extremely expensive. Lawyers do not accept bogus cases because they would quickly go broke is they did so. Do you live in some fantasy world? Of course ACTUALLY going to court is expensive, but the insurance companies always attempt to settle long before they get there. It's like blackmail and far cheaper to settle quickly than to go to court - plenty of shabby lawyers around doing this. I never really thought people were such scammers until my wife got in a car accident that did $1,000 in damage to her car a scratch and the other car had no damage it was about 5 mph in an intersection and no one was hurt. A year later my insurance agent said the claim had been settled for $11,500 due to the other drivers medical issues. What the F*ck are you talking about I said - she had no injures, you'd get hurt more falling down - no court just letters on legal letterhead - not exactly expensive to conduct business/extortion this way. The medical industry is awash in these types of frivolous lawsuits that never get to court. Then when they do get to court juries award ridiculous amounts of money in some cases that are simply stunning - like the millions for cancer victims related to smoking. If this pinhead president actually believed in capitalism and free markets he'd do something to help us insurance buyers by making frivolous lawsuits hard to bring thus cutting our costs and actually helping us. Or was he planning to do this after we start suing the government health care system instead of an evil insurance company?