Comments on: Health Care: Ignoring The Lawyer Elephant In The Room http://www.stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/21/health-care-ignoring-the-lawyer-elephant-in-the-room/ Psycho Blogging In Boxer-Briefs. Hold Me. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:12:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Howard Dean Brain Farts, Admits Democrats Are Afraid Of Trial Lawyers | Stephen Kruiser http://www.stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/21/health-care-ignoring-the-lawyer-elephant-in-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-2220 Howard Dean Brain Farts, Admits Democrats Are Afraid Of Trial Lawyers | Stephen Kruiser Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:10:44 +0000 http://www.stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/21/health-care-ignoring-the-lawyer-elephant-in-the-room/#comment-2220 [...] like I’m not the only one who wonders why tort reform isn’t at least part of the Teddy’s Dead Health Care [...] [...] like I’m not the only one who wonders why tort reform isn’t at least part of the Teddy’s Dead Health Care [...]

]]> By: MoogieP http://www.stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/21/health-care-ignoring-the-lawyer-elephant-in-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-2197 MoogieP Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:06:30 +0000 http://www.stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/21/health-care-ignoring-the-lawyer-elephant-in-the-room/#comment-2197 Ooops! No Freudian slip intended! PARISParamus! Ooops! No Freudian slip intended! PARISParamus!

]]> By: MoogieP http://www.stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/21/health-care-ignoring-the-lawyer-elephant-in-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-2196 MoogieP Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:58:15 +0000 http://www.stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/21/health-care-ignoring-the-lawyer-elephant-in-the-room/#comment-2196 PariaParamus -- well, yeah. Lawyer me would never advocate suppressing meritorious claims. Damage caps should be a separate deliberation -- one size can never fit all. But having to "wear" a cap might make a few hotheads think twice before filing frivolous or nuisance suits. PariaParamus — well, yeah. Lawyer me would never advocate suppressing meritorious claims. Damage caps should be a separate deliberation — one size can never fit all. But having to “wear” a cap might make a few hotheads think twice before filing frivolous or nuisance suits.

]]> By: ParisParamus http://www.stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/21/health-care-ignoring-the-lawyer-elephant-in-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-2194 ParisParamus Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:47:42 +0000 http://www.stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/21/health-care-ignoring-the-lawyer-elephant-in-the-room/#comment-2194 OK, lawyer me is not against tort reform proposals, provided they don't make suing on meritorious clams more expensive, impossible, or cap damages at a absurdly low level. OK, lawyer me is not against tort reform proposals, provided they don’t make suing on meritorious clams more expensive, impossible, or cap damages at a absurdly low level.

]]> By: MoogieP http://www.stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/21/health-care-ignoring-the-lawyer-elephant-in-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-2192 MoogieP Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:50:09 +0000 http://www.stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/21/health-care-ignoring-the-lawyer-elephant-in-the-room/#comment-2192 In a previous life, when I taught Business Law at a public University, I was a strong and vocal proponent of Tort Reform across the board. Today, I'm even more convinced that our economy (not only the health care industry) is inexorably doomed unless that elephant -- as you aptly desscribe it -- is corralled and sent out to pasture. You should check out the cost of litigation on the manufacturing process --it puts the unions to shame. And let's not even bring up agriculture. I agree -- tort reform must be on the table before any meaningful reform/improvement can take place in the healing arts store. In a previous life, when I taught Business Law at a public University, I was a strong and vocal proponent of Tort Reform across the board. Today, I’m even more convinced that our economy (not only the health care industry) is inexorably doomed unless that elephant — as you aptly desscribe it — is corralled and sent out to pasture. You should check out the cost of litigation on the manufacturing process –it puts the unions to shame. And let’s not even bring up agriculture.

I agree — tort reform must be on the table before any meaningful reform/improvement can take place in the healing arts store.

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