Kerry doesn’t understand the hidden consequential cost of defensive medicine as a result of our litigious society. Bush pointed that out the other day.
He doesn’t understand the big picture on this issue much less the economy or the global conflict we find ourselves embattled in right now
I am not a trial lawyer- I am just a widow who spent 2/1/2 years with my husband while he battled cancer. I am not suing anyone. What I saw in the medical field left ME in shock and awe. The cost of a medication at $10,000 per month. Hospital charges at $10-$15,000 dollars a day. Hospitals and doctors more concerned with the bottom line than patient care. Understaffing of nursing, etc, etc. Is this all attributable to personal injury lawsuits? That seems like the easy way to take the heat off of many of the other elements of this system that is so broken. While we are all finger pointing and trying to blame someONE thing- it just gets worse. I hope to God I just die a natural death and don’t have the rely on this system.
I am sorry to hear about your husband. You are right when you say that there is not one thing that can be blamed for high medical costs. You have to figure how many people must be employed to handle one cancer case or any case for that matter. You have the nurses,doctors, lab techs who run all of the tests, and not to mention all of the overhead of running a hospital plus all of the costs that are never collected on some cases. Then the medication and technology has to be paid for, it isn’t cheap to fund all of the research that goes into each drug. So with so many costs can we afford to pay attorneys millions of extra dollars? Even if a hospital or doctor doesn’t pay any damages their med-mal premiums can reach upwards of $300,000 per doctor per year. The reason for this insurance is simply to protect the doctors from huge lawsuits. SO you can see it comes back full circle to a lot of medical expense can be traced back to the wonderful attorney
Yes, the system needs corrected but how? I see several comments about how a plan will or will not work but no data to support such beliefs. I then see a reference to the MICRA of California. How about a comment on that plan that is not from trial lawers, Doctors, or Insurance companies but from the GAO-The General Accounting Office. “The GAO report showed that the price of medical malpractice liability insurance in California had increased dramatically since the passage of MICRA. In fact, “premiums for physicians increased from 16 to 337 percent in southern California … between 1980 and 1986.”1 The GAO study concluded.” Now, info showing the opposite is available but none of that information is from accountants. Like accountants or not they work exclusively with numbers and have no direct involvement on either side to cloud their judgement. As for the other comments out here, The President has been in office for four years and has done what to correct this problem? His party controls both houses and he has yet to VETO a spending bill. Why was it not corrected already? This fact alone should have people questioning both sides of the election not ruling one side or the other out automatically, that is if the issue truly is which candidate would be best for the country as a whole and not personal preference. It is easy and lazy to say the problem is solely the trial lawyers. We all know that nothing is that simple especially a matter this involved. Instead of making constructive comments about the subject this forum was used to promote political parties. The comments are not to help save America or its people but to further personal political beliefs. So, do not hide behind an issue to shoot political arrows under the guise of saving America or invoke God as a supporter of one party over the other. It cheapens God and the debate. If you cannot make your points either political or on a specific issue such as this medical crisis with actual facts then please spare us your self-serving rhetoric.
Nancy-
Insurance companies cannot simply increase rates without due cause. In most states they must file their rates before they can apply them. They must show that the need to increase their rates to cover losses or extra costs.
The entire issue of Medical costs has VERY little to do with Malpractice judgements or premiums, both of which are nothing more than a symptom. The real issue is healthcare is now considered a Right, hence any cost merely gets in the way of that “right”. Until people recognize that Rights can only be political and never economic, discussions like this will continue to go in circles
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opinions by signing with the letter K.
Anyone who doesn’t think God is part of
the whole thing should be ashamed to sign
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Kerry is all talk on a lot of issues
Kerry doesn’t understand the hidden consequential cost of defensive medicine as a result of our litigious society. Bush pointed that out the other day.
He doesn’t understand the big picture on this issue much less the economy or the global conflict we find ourselves embattled in right now
I am not a trial lawyer- I am just a widow who spent 2/1/2 years with my husband while he battled cancer. I am not suing anyone. What I saw in the medical field left ME in shock and awe. The cost of a medication at $10,000 per month. Hospital charges at $10-$15,000 dollars a day. Hospitals and doctors more concerned with the bottom line than patient care. Understaffing of nursing, etc, etc. Is this all attributable to personal injury lawsuits? That seems like the easy way to take the heat off of many of the other elements of this system that is so broken. While we are all finger pointing and trying to blame someONE thing- it just gets worse. I hope to God I just die a natural death and don’t have the rely on this system.
I am sorry to hear about your husband. You are right when you say that there is not one thing that can be blamed for high medical costs. You have to figure how many people must be employed to handle one cancer case or any case for that matter. You have the nurses,doctors, lab techs who run all of the tests, and not to mention all of the overhead of running a hospital plus all of the costs that are never collected on some cases. Then the medication and technology has to be paid for, it isn’t cheap to fund all of the research that goes into each drug. So with so many costs can we afford to pay attorneys millions of extra dollars? Even if a hospital or doctor doesn’t pay any damages their med-mal premiums can reach upwards of $300,000 per doctor per year. The reason for this insurance is simply to protect the doctors from huge lawsuits. SO you can see it comes back full circle to a lot of medical expense can be traced back to the wonderful attorney
Yes, the system needs corrected but how? I see several comments about how a plan will or will not work but no data to support such beliefs. I then see a reference to the MICRA of California. How about a comment on that plan that is not from trial lawers, Doctors, or Insurance companies but from the GAO-The General Accounting Office. “The GAO report showed that the price of medical malpractice liability insurance in California had increased dramatically since the passage of MICRA. In fact, “premiums for physicians increased from 16 to 337 percent in southern California … between 1980 and 1986.”1 The GAO study concluded.” Now, info showing the opposite is available but none of that information is from accountants. Like accountants or not they work exclusively with numbers and have no direct involvement on either side to cloud their judgement. As for the other comments out here, The President has been in office for four years and has done what to correct this problem? His party controls both houses and he has yet to VETO a spending bill. Why was it not corrected already? This fact alone should have people questioning both sides of the election not ruling one side or the other out automatically, that is if the issue truly is which candidate would be best for the country as a whole and not personal preference. It is easy and lazy to say the problem is solely the trial lawyers. We all know that nothing is that simple especially a matter this involved. Instead of making constructive comments about the subject this forum was used to promote political parties. The comments are not to help save America or its people but to further personal political beliefs. So, do not hide behind an issue to shoot political arrows under the guise of saving America or invoke God as a supporter of one party over the other. It cheapens God and the debate. If you cannot make your points either political or on a specific issue such as this medical crisis with actual facts then please spare us your self-serving rhetoric.
Nancy-
Insurance companies cannot simply increase rates without due cause. In most states they must file their rates before they can apply them. They must show that the need to increase their rates to cover losses or extra costs.
The entire issue of Medical costs has VERY little to do with Malpractice judgements or premiums, both of which are nothing more than a symptom. The real issue is healthcare is now considered a Right, hence any cost merely gets in the way of that “right”. Until people recognize that Rights can only be political and never economic, discussions like this will continue to go in circles
The only smart thing you came up with was
to agree to vote Republican.
And I can see you are very proud of your
opinions by signing with the letter K.
Anyone who doesn’t think God is part of
the whole thing should be ashamed to sign
their name.