Senate Dems: You should pay more for health care

[Mr. Goodbytes]

Senate Democrats, many of whom are running for President, brought a plan to reform malpractice awards (which cause doctors' insurance rates to take tremendous leaps each year) to a grinding halt. Now these reforms wouldn't put a limit on what would be paid out to litigants for lost wages. What they would do would be to cap the pain and suffering awards, which are always exagerrated to $250,000. So basically those who are wronged will still have no loss of cash flow and will get a good chunk of change too.

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States are already having exoduses of doctors to other states that have enacted health care malpractice reforms. Runaway juries (filled with idiots by definition) are harming anyone who must worry about health care bills. They drive up costs and lower the quality of service. Doctors spend more time creating paperwork to "justify" treatment than they spend time explaining treatment options to patients. Glad I never wanted to go to med school.

1) Probably a partisan decision.

2) In my opinion, reforms are long overdue. The healthcare industry is spinning out of control here.

3) Wish I'd become a doctor though. Don't see many doctors feeling the brunt of the economic downturn. They continue to milk insurance companies and are probably, along with lawyers, the richest group of professionals in this country.

Bottom line: consumer gets shafted, not doctors or insurance companies.

[Epidemic]

You sure doctors are the richest group. My guess is it would be lawyers.

So you feel that higher health care costs, companies pulling benefits or raising shared costs to the end user is shafting the end user.

Hmmmm,

Personally letting people win the health care lottery and tort lottery is a few benefitting at the cost of the many.

person comes into ER after crashing motorcycle into tree without helmet. ER doctor manages to save the life of the cyclist but forgets a sponge in the rush to save the morons life. Cyclist gets a headache and finds the sponge and says Hoooorahhhhh I can make a mint off of this one.

[Mr. Goodbytes]

You're darn right consumers get shafted when doctors have to close a practice and move to another state just to afford to stay in business. Think of all the communities that lose trusted advisers and healthcare providers.

Yeah, both of them. They makes tons of money. I went to a doctor's house once (Indian Doctor, we knows their family in India) and the entire house had carpeting pure white in color. So I says to him that it looks terrific but it isn't a good idea because it'd get dirty real quick.

So he says to me that they have a contract with a cleaning company to keep that pure white carpet clean in 6 bedrooms.

So I just couldn't resist asking what he payed to do that. He says $1500 per month.

To clean a carpet.

And we worry about doctors.