In the filter, P&T

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Information on tort reform and how it has benefitted the states that have enacted it:

How Tort Reform Works

http://www.atra.org/wrap/files.cgi/7964_howworks.html

Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121097874071799863.html

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@ Dirty Sanchez

No, you really don’t get it, do you. Conservatives really do care about seeing people, any people, badgered to vote in an open (non-secret) ballot. Isn’t the potential for abuse there evident to you, doubly so given the sterling quality of the union folks involved? The people are not at all above intimidation; that is one of their standard tools. Most conservatives, I should say all conservatives, simply think that is flat wrong, no matter who it is happening to.

Further, we don’t have a vendetta (to use your term) against the trial lawyers. We do, however, recognize that they play a zero sum game in which the only people who always profit are themselves. The lawyers always make out like bandits in every lawsuit, win or lose. Someone else always loses. Most of these issues could be settled without lawsuits, and many of them simply need not be issues in a more reasonable society that was not intent on making money out of accidents.

So, Dirty, as I said in the beginning, you really don’t get it.

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Let’s be real for a minute. Everyone knows this tort reform nonesense won’t do anything to lower costs. They’ve already done it in Missouri and a few other states, and health insurance premiums have still risen at alarming rates just like the rest of the country. And everyone also knows this isn’t really about lowering costs at all. It’s about the conservative vendetta against Democratic supporters – trial lawyers. Just the same way conservatives are against Card Check. They don’t give a crap about secret ballot elections for unions they just want to make it harder for unions to form by any means necessary.

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Yeah, this woman is totally stupid. Right!!!.. She sure has the dems on the run…from facebook yet. It is no wonder I support her. I agree with everything she has said so far. She is a true American. It really galls me the way the GOP has treated her. They have someone with charisma in their sights and still want Romney. Sarah is a phenomena that does not come along every day. The way she could draw crowds was outstanding and if anyone thinks McCain would not have lost by a landslide if she was not on the ticket has rocks in their head. But the GOP doesn’t want her. She didn’t go to the right colleges, etc. She doesn’t use the right mealy-mouth comments. I hope she runs and wins the nomintion. I will certainly vote for her. I guess what the GOP wants is another apathetic campaign that loses like McCains. That seems to be all they know.

I worked for trial lawyers for some years and got turned off them big time. They are the most callous people I have ever come across. Really full of themselves. The managing attorney at the firm I worked for told me that if tort refrom went through they would lose 3/4 of their client list. So, you know they will fight tort reform tooth and nail. They always have. He also said that dems were good for trial lawyers and republicans were bad. I’ll agree with that.

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@uri: You have a friend who may be ready to admit he made a mistake in voting for Obama? There are more and more of those people every day. Obama’s approval rating in the polls is already below the margin of votes he got in the election.

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Think things are bad now? You ain’t seen nuthin’

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@Plain Jane
You are right about busing voters from out of state … another old Chicago trick. Many “new” voters from Illinois are sent to Wisconsin (esp Milwaukee) and in Indiana to vote … people joke about it in Chicago just like the unfunny Chicago voter motto, “Vote early and vote often.”

If we do not control this illegal activity, and additional Chicago style antics such as using names from cemeteries to register voters, going through and “registering” incapacitated citizens, no longer requiring proof of residency (no state id or driver’s license), and more…we will not be able to elect officials. They will be chosen by Team Chicago, ACORN, SEIU, and other members of this anti-democratic movement.

Bi-partisan monitoring and possible audit of the mid-term 2010 elections must be established in each community. We also need to make it clear that voter intimidation will not be tolerated by the American people — such as the documented incidences in Philadelphia in 2008.

We must all stay involved in the US political process…beyond the 2009 awakening of Americans.

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Of course she is right. Cutting off the number of test docs can do while not effecting tort reform will make them sitting ducks for plaintiffs attorneys.

You will not be able to even find a doctor who speaks English and those who do practice will have go naked.

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I find no end to the enjoyment in listening to the whining about how stupid Sarah Palin is while at the same time she is able to define the argument and make Obama respond to her.

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