Bush to Push for Medical Liability Changes

[Rose Siding]

CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush will travel to Illinois next week to push for revisions in medical liability law that he has said are needed to eliminate "frivolous lawsuits that are driving up the cost of health care."

White House Trent Duffy said Thursday that Bush will deliver a speech on the subject Wednesday, Jan. 5, in Collinsville, Ill. No other details of the trip were released.

Limiting class-action lawsuits and medical liability claims were among the issues lawmakers left unfinished in the 108th Congress.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-bush-medical-liability-reform,0,6942759.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[pfitz59]

1. Lawsuits aren't driving up costs......

Its greedy mofo HMO middle-men, like the Frist family who are screwing us all!

[Florida_Geek]

2. Did Bushie missed the boat that he lost Illinois big time

and they really do not want to hear from him.

[gnofg]

3. insurance

Medical Insurance is a state issue. Don't repubs beleve in states rights. oops payoff to donors

[PurityOfEssence]

4. the Bush monarchy: dedicated to save the powerful from responsibility

At the heart of big-dick, tough-guy capitalism is the hatred of any safety nets and the glorification of personal responsibility. That only applies to those who aren't successful; for the rich, one's actions only reward one. There's no penalty, and there are endless safeguards. It's monarchy: the sustaining of the "better".

Gore Vidal said it best: "In America, we believe in capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich."

Not answering for one's actions is a sin against the soul of capitalism, if such a concept can even be swallowed. Fuck the weak and reward the strong; it's the primitive way. Much as they claim to uphold civilization, they undercut and destroy it at every step.

I wouldn't be as disgusted with it if they were all self-made people, but they're not. It's nothing short of thuggery.

[Q]

5. Kickbacks to the HMOs and the AMA...

...for their generous donations to the Bush Campaign. Why won't Democrats call this what it is? It's simply paying back certain industries: legislation in exchange for campaign cash.

[VegasWolf]

6. bush is to set the liability damages equal to twice your yearly income.

[phillysuse]

7. Whar ever happened to states rights and limited Federal government

Malpractice issues are a state issue.

The only malpractice cases that go to Federal court
are those in which a commercial product is sued
in addition to the doctor.

So, for example, if an infected tissue or a damaged artificial
valve or knee prosthesis is implanted, the patient may
elect to sue the physician as well as the manufacturer.
That case would be tried in a Federal court.

Bush obviously has never read the Constitution which allots
all matters not mentioned to the states for their
individual solutions.

What ever happened to states rights?

[Streetdoc270]

8. allowing bad doctors to continue to practice

is one cause of lawsuits. All Bush wants to do is keep lining the pockets of the Insu. companies by limiting what they have to pay out!:mad:

[this_side_up]

9. Collinsville? Does anyone know why

he would go there? It isn't that far from STL airport
but still, Collinsville??! St Charles or Earth City
would do just as well. Or is it just because it is
in Illinois?

Commuters will love it. They'll have to close down
at least 1 bridge (and 70!) maybe more, unless he does the
helicopter thing.

I'll have to ask my sister if she knows who/what is in
Collinsville.

[msgadget]

10. C'mon,

why is he doing this now...right now? Since 11/3 he's tossed out every stray thought as accomplishable goals. Trying to overwhelm the opposition before the new session?