Posted by
Anthony Rizzuto on Friday, August 14, 2009 5:37:30 AM
The President and his party are in a rush to ramrod a plan for national health care down the throats of an unwilling public with some assistance from liberal members of the opposition party all for the sake of controlling rising health care costs. The truth of the matter is regardless of what plan they come up with that will never happen. The dramatic rise in the cost of health care has little to do with Doctors, hospitals or insurance companies. The culprit is and has always been trial lawyers.
Certainly there are physicians guilty of malpractice and the same can be said of hospitals and the victims of such negligence deserve to be compensated. At one time such compensation was difficult to come by as the medical profession was seen by many as incapable of doing any wrong. However that pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme and the nation as a whole has become grossly litigious.
Tune in any channel and you are guaranteed to see at least one ad every hour on the hour by someone claiming to be " for the people", read that for those who are looking for quick buck. More often than not both clients and attorneys think nothing of trying to squeeze as much as they can out of someone in the medical community. The result has been increased costs to the consumer for everything from office visits to surgical procedures and every kind of treatment in between because someone ultimately has to pay for the increasing costs to health care providers for malpractice insurance, and that someone is "John Q. Public.'
Both Democrats and Republicans are up to their necks in contributions from the Trial Lawyer lobby so the odds of congress passing Torte reform that would reign in frivolous law suits are slim to none, but, until this is addressed there is no hope of reducing the ever increasing costs of medical treatment and rationing is not and never will be the answer.