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On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:15:12 -0700, "Bill McKee"
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On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:18:47 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

What insurance does is create a target rich environment for lawyers.
Between the two of them you are right, it is a huge drag on the
economy. We would actually be better off without any insurance at all
but then people would have to plan for their own futures and their own
problems,

actually no. the number of successful malpractice lawsuits is very
low.

Cite that.
It really doesn't matter anyway. The defendant still gets stuck with a
huge legal bill that shows up in his bills to everyone else.
If they want to fix torts, make them "loser pays" so the plaintiff has
some skin in the game.


and as to no insurance, what 3rd world country do you live in where
doctors earn minimum wage?

I am old enough to remember when we didn't have medical insurance and
I didn't remember people dying in the street.
The doctor lived on the same street you did and he would actually come
to your house when you were sick.

Another difference was, nobody thought about suing the doctor when
things didn't turn out the way they hoped.



There was medical insurance when you were a kid. But it was major
medical.
Did not pay for every sniffle visit.



I guess you don't understand how old I am.

I am 67. But mom was a nurse, so maybe they had insurance via the hospital.