Tort Reform in Health Care

Physicians want tort reform so that they don’t have to spend $300,000 a year on liability insurance in case they lose a ridiculous lawsuit. These suits add billions to the administrative cost of providing care, and represent a racket that parasitic attorneys have established in order to provide themselves a lucrative stream of income. The only person that can work within the legal system is of course a lawyer, so we have the proverbial foxes in charge of the hen house. Attorney’s typically keep about one-third of their “winnings.” In a $10 million lawsuit, this equated to $3.33 million for the lawyer.

John Edwards made tens of millions of dollars by suing obstetricians for failing to perform cesarean sections, thereby causing cerebral palsy in the delivered babies. There’s just one problem: There’s absolutely no correlation whatsoever between cesarean sections and cerebral palsy; and in fact cerebral palsy occurs in the womb well before birth. But in spite of this fact, which is not disputed by anyone qualified enough to have an opinion on the matter, obstetricians have discovered that they rarely get sued for performing a cesarean, and often get sued for not performing one. As you might imagine, the net effect of these events has been a drastic increase in the number of caesarean sections performed. So in addition to the $300,000 in policy premiums for every practicing physician that are ultimately passed on to the consumer and taxpayer, huge numbers of women are being subjected to invasive, major medical surgeries unnecessarily because of these bloodsucking bastards. That’s one example of thousands.

And please note my tact and restraint in not mentioning that Edwards impregnating an aide while his wife was home dying of cancer. I’m not a religious expert, but I believe that the Buddhists refer to that as “karma.”

Tort reform is one of the most obvious things that must be fixed in health care reform, and there is no mention of it in the current legislation. Why? Because the lawyers are paying off Congress to not address it. There are really just a handful of significant needs in health care reform, and none of them are addressed in the current bills. They would force a massive redistribution of wealth away from the parasites that do nothing to care for the ill, and they simply will not allow that to happen. Don’t confuse what is happening in DC right now with actual health care reform, which we desperately need. I was actually rooting for Obama, and I’m sorry to see him fail us so miserably…