How can you legislate free enterprise on one hand and not the other? 1) If lawywers ask outrageous fees, then it seems that they would get less business than those who would take the cases for lower cost. 2)If we limit lawyer fees, why not limit/cap insurance company profits? 3) But the MOST logical conclusion would be to revamp the medical profession to eliminate incompetent practitioners and faulty medical processes! They are the REAL culprit. If mistakes weren’t made, lawyers would be out of business.
For once, let’s have the courage to fix the CAUSE of med mal problems, not the symptoms.
Actually they do limit Insurance Profits. The state regulates what an insurance company can charge and looks at the profits the company makes. How can limiting lawyer fees be anti-victim? It doesn’t make sense.
Certainly increasing drug costs are a major factor in rising premiums, but do you ask physicians if there malpractice premiums and liability limits were reduced
how much less would they charge and would they prescibe less medication and would they practice less defensive medicine with all the new machines that they and there hospitals own and are paying or
paid for. This is a large part of there income.
We live in “greed society” and unless all participants including patients who must take resposibility for there own wellness
nothing will change.
People will be living longer annd that more than anything will drain the system.
The very sad truth is if people die sooner than later that will salvage the system.
With the new prescription program and medicare system that might very well happen. It will take everyone to look at the problem and work togeather as a team to solve it.
Again it appears that the big business lobby has done a tremendous job of bamboozling the great unwashed. Sure, lets cap damage awards. We can all have confidence that business will look out for our welfare. That safe products will be built. Because that is the power behind this “lawsuit abuse” baloney. Medical Insurance premiums are too high because the cost charged by providers is too high. and because there is too much waste in the system. Thanks to the results of the recent election, we can all look forward to nothing but “katie bar the door” rampant increases in costs. Our Greed driven society will soon burn itself out, but it will leave the common man in its ashes.
Very well said. We are in for some very scary times ahead. How will society ever overcome the insidious brain-washing so well executed these past few years.
There is no arguement that medical costs have risen. The question that must be asked is WHY. It seems that most people are blaming areas that you can’t control, ie Doctors and hospital causing errors. You most examine the whole gamit of expenses. Start with administration costs. Kerry’s suggestion of a central clearing house for medical claims is a possible solution. This would reduce the number of clerks that a physician has to hire to file a claim to the 100’s of medical care providers. Other costs should be examined, such as unnecessary tests. Surgery centers that create huge profits for the investors. Hospitals have whole floors dedicated to administration of claims.
Lets explore the causes before we treat the problem.
For me, I want an practioneer that will listen to me and take all the steps necessary to properly diagnose the problem. There is no doubt that prophylactic testing goes on–but perhaps it is by those physicians that are not confident in their own abilities; or those that push patients through their examining rooms in 2-3 minutes after making them wait for 2 hours and will rely on those ‘tests’ instead of their brain in actually spending time with the patient to learn of the symptoms that will lead to a diagnosis. All too often, how to buy that bigger yacht is the motivation for too many patients, not enough time spent with them, and a profitable bottom line in performing all those ‘tests’.
A clearing house for potential lawsuits is a great idea. It could ensure that the GOOD physicians are not harmed, but certainly could go a long way to either get rid of or rehabilitate doctors that are malpracticing!
Bad lawsuits are only part of the cost, agreed, but one way to prevent them at all is to get rid of the bad doctors and put procedures in place to detect stupid errors (like operating on the wrong limb).
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How can you legislate free enterprise on one hand and not the other? 1) If lawywers ask outrageous fees, then it seems that they would get less business than those who would take the cases for lower cost. 2)If we limit lawyer fees, why not limit/cap insurance company profits? 3) But the MOST logical conclusion would be to revamp the medical profession to eliminate incompetent practitioners and faulty medical processes! They are the REAL culprit. If mistakes weren’t made, lawyers would be out of business.
For once, let’s have the courage to fix the CAUSE of med mal problems, not the symptoms.
Actually they do limit Insurance Profits. The state regulates what an insurance company can charge and looks at the profits the company makes. How can limiting lawyer fees be anti-victim? It doesn’t make sense.
Certainly increasing drug costs are a major factor in rising premiums, but do you ask physicians if there malpractice premiums and liability limits were reduced
how much less would they charge and would they prescibe less medication and would they practice less defensive medicine with all the new machines that they and there hospitals own and are paying or
paid for. This is a large part of there income.
We live in “greed society” and unless all participants including patients who must take resposibility for there own wellness
nothing will change.
People will be living longer annd that more than anything will drain the system.
The very sad truth is if people die sooner than later that will salvage the system.
With the new prescription program and medicare system that might very well happen. It will take everyone to look at the problem and work togeather as a team to solve it.
Again it appears that the big business lobby has done a tremendous job of bamboozling the great unwashed. Sure, lets cap damage awards. We can all have confidence that business will look out for our welfare. That safe products will be built. Because that is the power behind this “lawsuit abuse” baloney. Medical Insurance premiums are too high because the cost charged by providers is too high. and because there is too much waste in the system. Thanks to the results of the recent election, we can all look forward to nothing but “katie bar the door” rampant increases in costs. Our Greed driven society will soon burn itself out, but it will leave the common man in its ashes.
Very well said. We are in for some very scary times ahead. How will society ever overcome the insidious brain-washing so well executed these past few years.
Will the voice of reason ever prevail again?
There is no arguement that medical costs have risen. The question that must be asked is WHY. It seems that most people are blaming areas that you can’t control, ie Doctors and hospital causing errors. You most examine the whole gamit of expenses. Start with administration costs. Kerry’s suggestion of a central clearing house for medical claims is a possible solution. This would reduce the number of clerks that a physician has to hire to file a claim to the 100’s of medical care providers. Other costs should be examined, such as unnecessary tests. Surgery centers that create huge profits for the investors. Hospitals have whole floors dedicated to administration of claims.
Lets explore the causes before we treat the problem.
Why do you think doctors run so many tests? Could it be to protect themselves from lawsuits?
For me, I want an practioneer that will listen to me and take all the steps necessary to properly diagnose the problem. There is no doubt that prophylactic testing goes on–but perhaps it is by those physicians that are not confident in their own abilities; or those that push patients through their examining rooms in 2-3 minutes after making them wait for 2 hours and will rely on those ‘tests’ instead of their brain in actually spending time with the patient to learn of the symptoms that will lead to a diagnosis. All too often, how to buy that bigger yacht is the motivation for too many patients, not enough time spent with them, and a profitable bottom line in performing all those ‘tests’.
A clearing house for potential lawsuits is a great idea. It could ensure that the GOOD physicians are not harmed, but certainly could go a long way to either get rid of or rehabilitate doctors that are malpracticing!
Bad lawsuits are only part of the cost, agreed, but one way to prevent them at all is to get rid of the bad doctors and put procedures in place to detect stupid errors (like operating on the wrong limb).
Please note that I didn’t post the below comment. For one thing, I know how to spell “argument.”