Comments on: Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance

By: sherry

sherry — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:40:41 +0000

I don’t know, Max. I’ve seen figures that say that frivolous law suits aren’t really what’s driving up the cost of malpractice insurance and I tend to view the ability to bring private suit as one way that the ordinary citizen can get justice. Look at what happened in the O.J. Simpson case — not that the two cases are necessarily comparable.It’s true that there are people who think a lawsuit is somehow free money, and it’s true that there are ambulance chasers, but I’d take some convincing before I wanted to adapt tort reform as a way to keep costs down.

By: Max

Max — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:25:13 +0000

LAWYERS.
It seems that the ambulance chasers (Tort Reform) isn’t part of the equation, frivolous law suits certainly drives up costs to those that pay their insurance premiums. (Like Car Insurance)

By: sherry

sherry — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:11:13 +0000

Do you think private-sector health insurance can be made affordable, Jessie?

By: Jessie Carty

Jessie Carty — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:01:19 +0000

its funny when my husband and i discuss the healthcare debate i find myself using car insurance (which i worked in) as an example of how you can make insurance affordable. *sigh*