On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:22:48 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:00:41 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:


Tort reform also has to be addressed - this could actualy be the water
shed of health care reform. I saw the bill my kids pay for their
malpractice insurance - it's simply amazing what they charge to protect
doctors from malpractice claims.

I could see some sort of threshold before allowing a suit. That would
keep the minor and frivolous law suits at bay, but generally what people
talk about when addressing tort reform, is the high end payouts.
Personally, I wouldn't want that touched. If some incompetent doctor
screws up, and makes me a paraplegic, I want to know my family is taken
care of.

I don't disagree with you, but the case has to have some merit. In
this case, I'd be in favor of a review panel type of situation to
decide on merit.

The problem is, and will always be, what rates as "merit" and what
rates as "frivilous". I've told the story of my own run in with
malpractice as a paramedic - to my mind, the lawyer should have just
told the plaintiff that her kid was lucky to be alive, but...

I think, and I would hope that most rational people would think this
way, that the whole issue needs careful deliberation - not radical
change in the space of two months. This is going to take years to fix.