Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Democratic Hypocrisy I
Can someone help me to reconcile how the Democratic party states that they are going to lower the cost of health insurance but also kow-tow to one of their biggest special interest groups the Trial Lawyers or Tort Lawyers aka "ambulance chasers". Isn't this going to have a major impact on how successful the socialized medicine proposal being put forth by Barry is?
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It is clear that a very large portion of our health care cost covers malpractice insurance. The Trial Lawyers have succeeded in driving out of Cook County and Illinois a large percentage of the OB/GYN specialists plus many surgeons except for the most stubborn due to the costs associated with practicing their specialties. The litigation industry has led all others in political contributions for over a decade, and the American Trial Lawyers Association was the largest PAC contributor to the Democratic party in the last full political cycle. Over that same span, every law firm contributing over $1 million was a plaintiffs' firm, and each gave 99 to 100 percent of its contributions to Democrats. The Trial Lawyers argue that it is the insurance companies that are gouging us but the fact is that two-thirds of Illinois’ insurers have left the state in the five years preceding 2006. If they were gouging people than why would they leave?
Mark speaks the truth.
And in the setting of a grand government distortion of the economics of health care, no wonder folks might think health care is a right. A right, meaning free, kind of like real estate commissions should be since it is also a right to own a home.
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