Bottom line is that incentives work. If you want more of any business then you will have to incentivise it. More money, less tax, lower liability; take your pick any, all or anything else creative that the seller of the services you need might themselves desire. The people of Texas have traded the possibility of gaining millions in non-economic damages against having more docs accessible every day.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/big_name_pi_lawyer_sentenced_for_bribing_judges

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate of Jackson, Miss., said the wrongdoing had put an end to the defendants’ “upward spiraling” careers. “Lady Justice is sobbing,” he said. “You essentially put justice up for sale.”

[referring to Lawyer Paul Minor and judges John Whitfield and Wes Teel]

But it’s the 99% of unethical and crooked lawyers lying and cheating their way to the jackpot that give the 1% of ethical lawyers a bad name.

Judge Judy? hehehehe. George Clooney said on ER that malpractice is too common. Must be true.

That’s because you made that 4-H stuff up.

“The per capita figure…..do your own research if you’re so interested. “

It’s your claim, can you not back it up with facts?

“Texas has had a surge of applications precisely consistent with tort reform.”

It was also consistent with drought. Therefore, it must be the lack of water drawing physicians!

“I know you want to credit it to the stock market, somehow different in Texas versus Oregon.”

You haven’t shown that there is any difference between Texas and Oregon.

So in other words you have no idea if Oregon has more or less docs per capita, or if they are gaining or losing docs.

Judge Judy spoke of such people as our reform opposing attorney friends, in the title of her book entitled (I swear) “Don’t Pee on My Shoes And Tell Me It’s Raining.”

Ed Sodaro MD