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johncoby2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 07:59 AM
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Bushes Tort reform my Ass. Look at what happened to his
own state of Texas before you believe his garbage.

Here in Texas after years of massive tort reform AND limiting malpractice suits, our insurance rates are still the HIGHEST in the nation and we have LESS coverage!!!

Tort reformist are scam artists. They worked here in Texas, but we are slowly realizing that we got screwed.

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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 08:03 AM
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1. Yeah
Herbert over at the NY Times had a report on this; the insurance companies are very carefully not promising any reduction in rates for their customers. Jerks. Tort reform may as well be renamed the "Free Money for Insurance Companies Act."

Bryant
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 08:29 AM
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2. it's time for a meteor to hit the Supreme Court building
for being a black hole of utter stupidity. If what they ruled on yesterday had been in effect 30 years ago, when the Pintos were exploding every time they hopped a curb, the most anyone could have sued for would have been the value of the $15 part required to keep the car from blowing up.

As with the HMO's now, the most you can sue them for is the value of medicine or treatment that you didn't get. It's mind blowing. For many people that could amount to a death sentence. I had a bilateral inguinal hernia repair a few years ago -- it was painful but wasn't life threatening and it absolutely needed to be taken care of. If my HMO had just decided to save a few thousand dollars by denying me coverage of the surgery, I would probably be in a wheelchair or bedridden by now. It would have cost me more to sue them than I could have recovered by attempting to sue for coverage of the surgery.

How's that for compassionate conservatism.
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StopThief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 08:45 AM
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3. Just because the result may not be what we would. . . .
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 08:46 AM by StopThief
consider the proper one. Does not make it bad law. All the Supreme Court did was properly interpret a very clearly written federal law. To have done otherwise would have been to step beyond their proper role.

If people her don't like the result, lobby the Congress to change the federal law that they enacted.

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