Bush Continues Push to Rip-Off Victims
Bush Continues Push to Rip-Off Victims of
Medical Malpractice With Jury Award Limits
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. -- President Bush pressured Congress Wednesday to pass legislation limiting jury awards for medical malpractice, saying the legal system favors attorneys who file baseless cases that drive up the cost of health care. In his first speechmaking trip of the new year and the first ever of a sitting president to Collinsville, Bush said that large malpractice awards have increased the cost of business so much that doctors have to close their businesses or scale back services. He said it also drives up the cost of personal health insurance.
THE MEDICAL MALPRACTICE INSURANCE PROBLEM
What to do with doctors who kill people
From state lawmakers to federal lawmakers the news continues about placing caps on monetary payouts that are ment to help victims of medical malpractice.
Doctor groups are lobbying for lower malpractice insurance rates, Insurance Companies are lobbying for caps on monetary payouts and Trial Attorneys are lobbying against both the doctors and insurance companies.
While politicians like President Bush take the side of their favorite campaign contributors, the People (future victims) are disenfranchised with little or no representation.
There is one side of this story however, that we never read or hear anything about, and I believe it's the side of the story that would solve the problem of high medical bills, insurance rates and attorney fees.
When people are injured or killed, and it is believed to be the fault of a doctor, instead of trying the case in civil court, the doctor should be tried in criminal court! If the doctor is found guilty of injuring or killing people then throw the criminal in prison!
Because of criminal prosecution, we will see a massive reduction in doctor related medical malpractice cases and therefore have no need for high medical bills, insurance rates and attorney fees. Except for doctors, if anybody else injures or kills people the alleged criminals are tried in criminal court.
We are absolutely stupid to give doctors the ability to buy "insurance" to avoid criminal punishment and then all they do is pass the expense to the consumer! The low percentage of bad doctors continue injuring or killing people, the demand for trial attorneys to defend victims continue unabated which means higher attorney fees and the medical insurance rates continue to go through the roof.
Criminal prosecution of bad doctors won't do away with medical malpractice insurance entirely. Once doctors are found guilty in criminal court and hauled off to prison, next bring the civil charges and then the insurance companies can pay to take care of the victims. Once the justice system starts throwing these criminal-doctors in prison we will see a massive reduction in medical malpractice cases, and the medical insurance companies will see that reduction in payouts. I mean massive reduction!
But right now, the public is being constantly subjected to the political spin, the criminals remain at large paying professional lobbyists and making hefty campaign donations to both political parties, and the American people are subsidizing this circus.
We don't need tort reform and medical malpractice caps, we need lawmakers who will write criminal laws and the justice system to start arresting, prosecuting and punishing doctors who injure and kill people! We need Justice! But becuase we do not have Justice points to the heart of the problem: Lobbyists bribing politicians to write laws that make the taxpayers pay for it.
--Jim Rudd
Posted by Editor at January 5, 2005 06:50 PM
