Healthcare Debate Brings Out More Calls For Tort Reform: What Don’t These People Understand?
The other day while watching The Today Show early in the morning, I heard a prominent Republican stalwart calling for legislation reform in order to terminate the healthcare crisis. Lately, as the Democrats and Republicans engage in healthcare debate, town hall meetings are filled with politicians and lobbyists adhering to an emotional script of talking points that are totally unrelated to the reality of the situation.
In a column in the Orlando Sentinel on September 6th, Scott Maxwell lavished strong praise on the United States legal system specifically on its provisions in which “a single man wronged by powerful interests could seek justice from a panel of his peers” or “a woman who lost her child and is worried that another woman might lose hers,” can bypass the bureaucrats and turn directly to their fellow Americans for help. Yet now after two hundred years, we have people trying to undo the system and block the roadways to the court. All in the name of health reform. A careful review of the facts indicates that reform would do little to actually help the common man and that these same individuals standing on their soapboxes and screaming in town halls would be limiting their own rights.
Curiously enough this experienced medical malpractice and catastrophic injury lawyer has seen the hardest core court reform advocates turn to the courts for redress when in fact a serious or catastrophic injury has occurred to them or members of their families.
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