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Gettin' Your Irish Up
(Page 3 of 3)
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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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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