[Vision2020] A Pledge to real Americans (Mikey Moore)

[Pat Kraut]

There is other fallout from tort claims...even if you have on your drivers
license 'Organ Donor' no hospital in this country will take the organs. You
must talk to your family and they must come in and say it is OK and sign an
entire tree of paper work. They are aftraid that your  Great Aunt Martha may
show up, throw her hands in the air "Oh I can't live with him all cut up"
and sue. It is costing transplants and it is only part of the story.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>
To: "Tony" <tonytime at clearwire.net>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A Pledge to real Americans (Mikey Moore)


On 11/22/06, Tony <tonytime at clearwire.net> wrote:
> Andreas, are you taking the position that ridiculously outlandish, cash
> judgments have not driven up the cost of insurance coverage for the
general
> public?

Oh, they have.

But in 2004, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office reported
that only 2% of the increase in medical care costs are related to
malpractice torts, and that there was no statistically significant
difference in medical care costs between states with and without caps
on medical malpractice liability. The Republican push for tort reform,
like anti-union "paycheck protection" laws, are not so much an attempt
to institute actual reforms as they are  attempts to shut off the flow
of potential funds to Democratic candidates from Democratic-friendly
groups.

-- ACS

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