Yes there are trade offs for everything. I would say these suits are 
a major red herring reason for our rising medical costs. I am against 
our privatized medical system. Medicine is one industry that should 
NOT be run for profit in my opinion. Doctors now own hospitals. Is it 
right for them to have a financial incentive to keep patients 
hospitalized? What about investments in drug companies? Any conflict 
there?  I mean there are so many problems with our medical delivery 
system, where do we begin?
We're something like 17th in our ratio of live births per 1000. Why 
so low? France is number one in medicine and we should look at 
modeling our system similarly.
You may be right and I am warped from what I've seen of the bad guys 
including bad docs. One doctor got a huge rep as a great oncologist 
for curing cancer. Well it is mighty easy to cure cancer when you've 
diagnosed someone who doesn't have it as having it and then say 
you've cured that person. First she underwent chemotherapy treatments 
that nearly destroyed her. Then to find out the doc was lying for money.
Thanks to Bush we have the best weapons in the world and people be 
damned. Have I vented about Bush yet today? Sorry Ken.

At 02:01 PM 4/5/2006, you wrote:
>But ... but ... these sort of suits are a major factor in our
>increasing medical bills.  I think there ought to be a low cap on the
>awards given by juries.
>
>Kat
>
>On 5 Apr 2006, at 19:59, Linda Walker wrote:
>
>I work for lawyers on these types of cases - personal injury civil
>lawsuits. Without civil law average people would have no recourse
>against government or business. Yes the attorneys who take them get a
>percentage of the settlement. That percentage is set by statute on a
>state by state basis,  always to my knowledge less than half. They
>also front all the costs, experts, research, motions to dismiss,
>discovery, motions to compel, and expertly prevail over a myriad of
>legal problems no one thinks about. Their payday is often years away.
>Most people would never have the resources to do this by the hour in
>order to protect themselves and if the attorneys lose they take the
>financial hit. If you think it is easy to fight big business when
>they damage people, you might want to think again. Civil attorneys
>have always been heroes of mine, they brought us equal rights, civil
>rights, disability law and have fought to put into law just about
>every other progressive idea on the planet.
>
>
> >
> > It will ALL GO  to the lawyers I assume............
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