home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: pnw.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!ssd.intel.com!psgrain!neon!fasttech!zeke
- From: zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk)
- Subject: Re: Trust Me - I'm from the Government to help you
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.001134.14549@fasttech.com>
- Organization: Fast Technology Beaverton, OR
- References: <1578@nazgul.UUCP> <1993Jan18.194858.21798@ssc.com> <1586@nazgul.UUCP> <1993Jan24.074207.14191@eskimo.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:11:34 GMT
- Lines: 26
-
- In <1993Jan24.074207.14191@eskimo.com> nanook@eskimo.com (Robert Dinse) writes:
- > There needs to be reform in the court system. There needs to be real
- >substantial penalties associated with frivilous law suits, or those that are
- >designed to transfer wealth as opposed to seeking compensation for damages.
- >There needs to be larger penalties for scam artists faking injuries in an
- >attempt to collect damages and there needs to be stiff penalties for any
- >lawyer or anyone else who cooperates in such scams.
-
- This is 100% true, and is one of two main factors driving up health costs.
- The other is the AMA union. It has done an outstanding job limiting the
- number of new physicians.
-
- Unfortunately I haven't got a clue of how to change either of these.
-
- One of Quayle's goals was court reform. Did he accomplish ANYTHING in this
- area? The vast majority of our scummy politicians are lawyers, so I don't
- see how anything can change. Perhaps the easiest solution would be what
- Shakespeare suggested.
-
- There is some slight hope in fighting the AMA. Occasionally lawyers and
- doctors square off against each other.
-
- It's easy to talk about government reforms of various sorts. But, step by
- step, how do you make meaningful changes? How can you even begin to?
- --
- Bohdan The Clinton Administration -- America Held Hostage -- Day 5
-