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Gettin’ Your Irish Up

Your real Irish, that is. Look before swimming. Enter the confessional. The carbon divide. Plus more.

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OVERLAWYERED
Our Democrats in Washington have decided to nationalize health care this year. Our health care costs about $1.5 trillion annually (it should be called sick care — care of the healthy costs little or nothing) in order to decrease this cost while extending health insurance to all 300 million citizens from the 250 million insured now. Of this total cost of $1.5 trillion about one third or $500 billion is spent on malpractice insurance and defensive medicine.

The combined population of Japan, Germany, and Great Britain is some 250 million; those three countries have a total of 35,000 lawyers. We maintain some 1,100,000 lawyers in this country in the style to which they have become accustomed, which is very much higher than that of and average American professional.

How come this enormous difference? Well, in all developed countries except ours the loser in a court case pays all the costs, of the court and of the defendant, both direct and indirect; here the loser just walks away to sue somebody else, preferably a private drug corporation, a doctor, a hospital, or anybody with a deep pocket. Our trial lawyers are hyenas sucking the blood of this country’s economy, with the help of phony experts and primitive juries.
Marc Jeric
Las Vegas, Nevada

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Letter to the Editor View all comments (14) |

Pingback| 3.18.09 @ 8:18AM

The American Spectator : Gettin' Your Irish Up | corporated.net links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Shame on you for not checking your facts before you “slam” a fellow conservative. My opinion of spectator.org has, sadly, been diminished. … Read more → Related blogs: The American Spectator : Gettin' Your Irish Up Tags: Featured Articles Stock Market Day Trading Book > Learn Stock Trading Online - Picking Hot Stocks How to Buy and Sell Stocks in 2009 > Learn Online Stock Trading - Picking…

Alan Brooks| 3.18.09 @ 7:59PM

Linda Sparks is correct on the mistake concerning Mr. Jindal
However, Jindal is revealing himself as a demagogic opportunist-- unsurprising coming from a politician from the Long's state. If Jindal runs for POTUS in '12, I'll vote for Obama, as Reagan Democrats voted for Clinton in '92 & '96.
being this is AS I can write that Linda is letting her female enthusiasm for Jindal's Asian gravitas cloud her judgment. however charismatic Jindal is, just look at his lean and hungry look, and his too-perfect positioning.

One might call Jindal's positions teleprompterish.
Republicans CAN do better. You chose Reagan over Bush 41 in 1980, didn't you?

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