Why Health Insurance Costs so Much!
We Don't Need Another Lawyer President, Let's Try a Doctor for a Change!
I was in Florida Twenty or so years ago when a law restricting pain and suffering awards to $50,000 was presented to the public for passage. The Florida Bar Associations ran an ad over and over opposing the law saying that it didn't matter if you had a million dollars in medical expenses you would only be able to collect $50,000 in pain and suffering awards. A neighbor of mine voted against the law on that basis. I couldn't convince him that the ad was purposefully deceptive. If you had a million dollars in medical expenses you would still be able to collect the full million dollars. However, your pain and suffering award would be limited to $50,000. He didn't believe me, he believed, from the purposefully deceitful ad, that you would not be able to collect the million dollars in medical expenses. The law got voted down because enough people were deceived by the ad. Purposefully deceiving people is what lawyers do best.
We don't need more laws governing what doctors can and can't do. We need laws that protect doctors from the deceitful, dishonest, shyster legal profession. With lawyers like Hillary Clinton Barack Obama, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, and Mitt Romney, all lawyers, leading in the polls for President in 2008, the number of lawyers in Congress, and in state legislatures, I'm not optimistic. How about a doctor for President in 2008? Dr. Ron Paul is running. He is a gynecologist and that gives us the chance to elect someone who knows the high cost of health insurance brought on by the high cost of medical malpractice insurance because of all the lawsuits that are being brought against Doctors by the greedy legal profession.
Published by Joe Btfsplk
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Post a CommentI posted another answer to your Health Care article but, unfortunately, I inadvertantly posted it to my own comments. If you have a moment, could you please check it out? Thanks.
I didn't realize until studying presidents with my son that more of them were lawyers than anything else throughout our nations history I like what I've heard about Dr. Paul (Dr. No as the case may be.) Keep yer powder dry an' yer guns loaded, Joe.
First of all, thank you for reading my article on health care in this country. I read your article and I totally agree with your views. However, I purposely did not include the legal aspect because that is an entirely different issue. It is an issue someone else needs to address (possibly you???) My knowledge concerning law is way too 'black and white' for me to present an arguement on this or any other legal issue. As for me, I cannot and will never understand how defense attornies can argue a case that, by all common sense and human reasoning, is wrong. I know, I know; it is our right to have legal defense to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt,.... yadda, yadda, yadda! But, to me... right is right and wrong is wrong and there is no gray area! Unless the legal issue is something I know possitively can be fixed and have some idea as to how (such as illegals from other countries), I'm totally lost.