Hell in a Handbasket

[OrphanPip]

So the fix to the health system is if you don't have insurance and don't have the cash, you should be refused medical help. I believe if we got rid of the frivolous lawsuits not only in medical care, which is why doctor's malpractice insurance is so high, but in all the differant trades and bussinesses. Wining a lawsuit against mac donalds cause someone is stupid enough to put the hot coffee they just bought between their legs while driving a car is just plain nuts. There is a time for attorney's but if you look at court dockets at each case it becomes insane, James

There are actually several states where limits on lawsuits were imposed by Republicans and it didn't lower rates.

Also, the elderly lady who was burned by the McD. coffee nearly died from the burns, and she got the settlement because it came out in the lawsuit that McD. had been told over a hundred times that they kept their coffee at dangerously hot levels (180-200F) but did not do anything about it. So, McD. received high punitive damages because the judge felt they had not listened to courts in the past about coffee temperature. Also, most of the awarded money went to paying for the expensive skin grafts.

The myth of frivolous lawsuits has been spread by corporate interests.

As to the healthcare stuff, Americans always look ridiculous from an international perspective on this. You already spend more per capita on sub-par medical care, so clearly you're fucking something up. Switzerland and Germany manage to make a functional private system work. Most of the rest of the developed world makes public systems work. The Americans just need to commit to working model and carry it through properly instead of waffling around in their semi-private overpriced monstrosity of a system.