Re: Outrageous!! We *must* have tort reform!

From: sinister (sinister_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:40:45 GMT

<royls@telus.net> wrote in message news:4196551c.6827542@news.telus.net...
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 09:35:14 -0500, " jls" <jls1016@bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
>
>>"Hugo S. Cunningham" <hcunn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:1eca06f1.0411130616.59d4700d@posting.google.com...
>>
>>> The need to use our legal system as back-door health insurance is the
>>> original cancer that has metastasized into abusive lawsuits in many
>>> other branches of civil law.
>>
>>Who are you but an insurance company toady?
>
> He is somebody who understands something of the matter. You aren't.
>
>>And what is wrong with a
>>doctor or hospital paying damages for negligence causing personal injury
>>to
>>a patient?
>
> <sigh> Hugo is pointing out the fact that they are compelled to pay
> "damages" even when they haven't been negligent, because juries will
> not let the victims of mischance suffer, when their suffering can be
> relieved by imposing injustice on those who are considered well able
> to bear it.
>
>>Is tort law based on failure to use due care so hard for you
>>to understand?
>
> Tort law based on sympathy rather than justice is something that is
> obviously too hard for you to understand.

Right. But why should MDs be exempted from the tort system, which is what
they want in the US? To make matters worse, it's difficult or even
impossible to get at information which would allow you to make an informed
choice about which doctors to see. And if someone created a website to
collate such information, they'd be sued by doctors for libel...via the tort
system.

Currently, as far as I can tell, the rate at which doctors are stripped of
their right to practice medicine is far too low. IMHO the right thing to do
is regulate MDs based on case-adjusted statistical monitoring of their
performance. Incompetent MDs would have their license to practice medicine
taken away.

>
> -- Roy L
>
> -- Roy L

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