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Juries have hand in insurance costs
Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009 | 2 a.m.
Litigation has been partially blamed for the high cost of medical insurance. And the finger of blame is usually pointed at the lawyers.
But it’s not the fault of lawyers. It’s the fault of the people who sit on juries. They, and they alone, determine the amount of damages.
So when a jury falls for an attorney’s “tear-jerking” emotional sales pitch and awards ridiculously high damages, who’s really to blame? It’s the jurors!
Therefore, if the high cost of medical insurance is truly tied to unreasonably high damage awards by juries, the solution is obvious: Make sound, reasonable judgments.
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hey bill...
you are dead wrong partner...
nothing but another pathetic attempt to change the subject...
bottom line...
the greedy pig insurance companies and the money grubbing whore doctors are going to bankrupt the country...
not the lawyers...
not the juries...
period...
end of story!!!
Given that there are large numbers of criminal and civil trials in the U.S. and of that a large fraction result in monetary awards what are the odds of a few examples that fall way beyond the statistical mean? So any specific example of excess awards, even if it is factually accurate are meaningless. The only way to stop any so called abuses would mean infringing on the constitutional rights of the rest of us. Only the innumerate and illiterate will now argue for Billy's position. I don't suppose Billy boy up there has any specific examples?
The latest poll by Scott Rasmussen not only shows national opposition to Obamacare rising -- now it is 41% for 56% against -- but also shows the elderly moving against it even more strongly by 33% for 59% or almost 2:1 against it...
There is always some idiotic conservative who brings up the case of the woman burned because of coffee without knowing anything about this case. For those interested in facts rather the nonsensical assertions of Phargo please read here:
http://www.mgrlaw.net/mcdonalds.htm
In addition, the numbers Phargo asserts are not accurate so don't be misled by its nonsense.
If the government is offering insurance and the service person buys it that is a contract not a lawsuit so comparing the two is apples to oranges.
What drives the cost of malpractice premiums is the bond market. Go find out for yourself what I mean by that.
How can any sane person be against better
health care?
The right-wing needs better mental health
care.
Scott Rasmussen is a Republican.
His polls can't be trusted.
If it's such a important issue, why doesn't the Obama administration IMMEDIATELY through a Presidential Proclamation make Medicaid available to all who can't afford health insurance and have preexisting conditions and can not obtain health insurance?
But, it's not really a important issue with the Obama administration. Obama is using it as another crisis to get a complete government takeover of the health care system.
Larry:
Give up the B.S.
Nobody believes you.
In a recent Gallup survey, 89% of Republicans, 64% of independents, and 61% of Americans overall say Americans themselves -- rather than the government -- have the primary responsibility for ensuring that they have health insurance. Six in 10 Democrats say the government should be primarily responsible.