Sunday, July 30, 2006
Tort reform in Mississippi
Another success story:Before tort reform, Mississippi was viewed by outsiders as a state with a "jackpot justice" system that featured frivolous lawsuits and outlandish damage awards.
The legislation has removed a huge obstacle for many companies who were leery of moving to Mississippi. Even some insurance companies who fled the state have returned, including Mass Mutual and St. Paul Travelers.
Trial lawyers and tort reform opponents say the legislation helped big business at the expense of the little guy. But the reality is that the reforms lifted Mississippi's business environment and is helping bring new jobs to the state. And that helps everyone.
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The first paragraph sums it up: "
Two years after Mississippi's lawmakers passed sweeping tort reform laws, we don't hear dire reports of doctor and nurse shortages. Nor do we hear news that a business or industry decided not to move to the state out of fear of litigation."
Note that it has nothing to do with evidence, just what we "hear". In other words, we've shut the propaganda machine down now that we have what we want, so as far as you know it's victory. In fact, the whole article offers not one useful fact, other than a couple of insurers have moved back. It neglects to mention, though, that those providers have come back even into states where they aren't screwing the poor!
You're smarter than that Kevin. Are you really just regurgitating press releases now?
CJD
Two years after Mississippi's lawmakers passed sweeping tort reform laws, we don't hear dire reports of doctor and nurse shortages. Nor do we hear news that a business or industry decided not to move to the state out of fear of litigation."
Note that it has nothing to do with evidence, just what we "hear". In other words, we've shut the propaganda machine down now that we have what we want, so as far as you know it's victory. In fact, the whole article offers not one useful fact, other than a couple of insurers have moved back. It neglects to mention, though, that those providers have come back even into states where they aren't screwing the poor!
You're smarter than that Kevin. Are you really just regurgitating press releases now?
CJD
# posted by 
: 10:32 AM
: 10:32 AM
A nonsensical puff piece? I have to agree with CJD. Kevin you are better than this. You could have posted the LA Times story about Forutne 500 companies looking to offshore their healthcare, but instead we get a story about how the physician terrrorist gang blackmailed the vapid imbiciles of the legislature into passing special protections for themselves.
# posted by : 1:31 PM
: 1:31 PM
You two guys are so full of shit my computer started to smell when I turned to your arguments. Why should I work somewhere that I can be sued for patients I never even saw, because of all you greedy bastards, when I can do something less risky and still make a living. Go prey on some other profession.
Signed,
a former (very good) physician who got tired of being a lawyer avoider instead of a physician.
Signed,
a former (very good) physician who got tired of being a lawyer avoider instead of a physician.
# posted by : 7:02 PM
: 7:02 PM
Too bad your streetwalker colleagues were and are more than happy to bed the same trial lawyers on their post hoc ergo propter hoc junk science PI cases and the criminal defense attorneys on their twinkie defense cases. Here is the simple equation for you: Attorneys = Good iff Physician = Profiteer, Attorneys = Bad iff Phyisican = Defendant.
# posted by : 8:35 PM
: 8:35 PM
Another oversimplification by Anon 2:28 from another thread. Try something like this...percentage of streetwalker physicians 1%, percentage of frivilously sued physicians at some time in their career 99%. I don't if you comprehend that ethical physicians despise any health care provider who has sold a less than truthful opinion for a dollar. We also despise members of the legal industry who extort money with no concern for the truth.
# posted by : 10:24 PM
: 10:24 PM
You might be surprised. I could name off about 60-70% of the local orthopedic and neurological surgery community that has been involved in the "they told me the accident caused the injury and therefore it did" post hoc ergo propter hoc "medical causation" travesty. We won't even talk about the rheumatological community with "post-traumatic fibromyalgia" - a litigation diagnosis (such as railway spine) if there ever was one. And then there are the psychiatrists. The local psychiatric community is so deeply in bed with the criminal defense attorneys that it is no surprise anymore to see some excusatory defense based on "mental illness" thrown out in almost every single case.
# posted by : 10:55 PM
: 10:55 PM
It apperas that the American Trial Lawyers Association has decided to rename itself. "Trial lawyer" has become as popular a term with the public as has "leprosy".
The ambulance chasers decided that American Association for Justice had that politically correct ring that would keep the public off their case, at least for a while!
The ambulance chasers decided that American Association for Justice had that politically correct ring that would keep the public off their case, at least for a while!
"I could name off about 60-70% of the local orthopedic and neurological surgery community that has been involved in the "they told me the accident caused the injury and therefore it did""
Please do name them off and the community. Otherwise, I think you're just another fiction writer
wannabe.
Please do name them off and the community. Otherwise, I think you're just another fiction writer
wannabe.
# posted by : 9:36 AM
: 9:36 AM
Ventura, Ca:
Stephen Shaw, MD
Stephen Smith, MD
Buenaventura Medical Group (recently purchased by Kaiser) - Multiple providers
Buenaventura Orthopedics - Horvath (DO) and Stroberg (MD)
Michael Rosco, MD
Ocean Orthopedic - Ballard, Began, Mazurek
Ventura Orthopeidcs - Multiple Providers
I can continue with the providers from SB, LA (including SCOI, USC, UCLA), Orange County, San Bernardino, etc.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc and prostituting for the attorneys is endemic in the field of medicine and not the exception.
Stephen Shaw, MD
Stephen Smith, MD
Buenaventura Medical Group (recently purchased by Kaiser) - Multiple providers
Buenaventura Orthopedics - Horvath (DO) and Stroberg (MD)
Michael Rosco, MD
Ocean Orthopedic - Ballard, Began, Mazurek
Ventura Orthopeidcs - Multiple Providers
I can continue with the providers from SB, LA (including SCOI, USC, UCLA), Orange County, San Bernardino, etc.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc and prostituting for the attorneys is endemic in the field of medicine and not the exception.
# posted by : 2:47 PM
: 2:47 PM
What's wrong? Did the names of the majority of the orthopedic community of Ventura County put a damper on your day? There is case law from the Appelate Courts throughout this country that discuss the "clinical causation model." Toxic tort law had to be reformed because of the threat to companies presented by activist mega douchebags from the physican terror gang when it came to causation. Don't trip all over yourselves when it comes to trying to pass special legislation to protect yourselves while your colleagues are busy bedding the same lawyers to rape others
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