Re: The end is in sight



"Charlie E." wrote:

"Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Richard the Dreaded Libertarian" <freedom_guy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

If, when Latisha took little Mobutu to the ER for a skinned knee or so,
If they billed her the three grand or so, she might be motivated to invest
in a first-aid kit and learn how to use it.

In a more sensible world, the triage nurse at the ER would tell Latisha,
"look, there doesn't appear to be any problem here -- you might go home, clean
it up and cover it with gauze, and it'll be fine; we'd do the same thing but
it's just going to cost you more money." In the real world, this doesn't
happen due to liability concerns -- if it turns out the nurse is wrong, and
Mobutu's knee gets infected and he eventually loses his leg, guess who's going
to have to pay millions of dollars? There's a non-negligible component of
U.S. health care that can be directly attributed to "defensive medicine" like
this.

This is all part of the "No Risk" society that we presently have.
There shoulld be no risk, no matter what behavior or action that you
perform, and if something bad SHOULD happen, then someone else is
obviously to blame, and should pay for it.

Rich smokes for 50 years, and suddenly has a stroke due to circulatory
failure. He sues the tobacco companies for them evilly inticing him
to smoke...

A guy breaks into your house, cuts himself on the window he broke to
get in, gets an infection, and sues you for the dangerous window glass
you have...

You keep your kids wrapped in a plastic bubble, but then they go to
college and party their minds out and get addicted. it is the
school's fault for not policing your child's behavior properly...

and on and on...

Indeed. Life can be dangerous. People should take responsibility for their own
actions when they know they are inadvisable.

Graham

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