Re: Kerry/Edwards Tort Reform
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu Aug 5 17:41:28 2004
a thought ... since the government will have a vested interest in
controlling costs and since the rising costs, both direct and indirect,
associated with liability concerns will still drive the upward spiral,
will not the government move for tort reform?
art
At Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Rafael Haciski wrote:
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>On Aug 5, 2004, at 14:37, David Priver, MD wrote:
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>> As to Kerry and
>> Edwards bringing in government funded health care for all, we'd all be
>> a
>> lot better off if that happened.
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>Come on! All you have to do is look at Medicare, Medicaid, VA system,
>the Post office, to see how inefficient and messed up the GOVERNMENT
>system is. You really can not in all seriousness support a team that
>has made its fortunes on suing obstetricians for bad outcomes, and who
>will continue to milk the system to their (and their cohorts')
>advantage.
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>Yes the republicans are also bad, but on the relative badness scale,
>they are preferable to the Dems. What we need is an effort to alter
>the system independent of which party is in force. But to be dealing
>with the government as a payor is unacceptable.
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>Rafael C. Haciski MD FACOG
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>On Aug 5, 2004, at 14:37, David Priver, MD wrote:
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><excerpt>As to Kerry and
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>Edwards bringing in government funded health care for all, we'd all be a
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>lot better off if that happened.
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>Come on! All you have to do is look at Medicare, Medicaid, VA system,
>the Post office, to see how inefficient and messed up the GOVERNMENT
>system is. You really can not in all seriousness support a team that
>has made its fortunes on suing obstetricians for bad outcomes, and
>who will continue to milk the system to their (and their cohorts')
>advantage.
>
>Yes the republicans are also bad, but on the relative badness scale,
>they are preferable to the Dems. What we need is an effort to alter
>the system independent of which party is in force. But to be dealing
>with the government as a payor is unacceptable.
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><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param>Rafael C. Haciski MD FACOG
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>Bradenton FL
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art fougner, md
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