Soon you will buy insurance for your insurance,
and most sheep (who have the money to do so) won't even blink at the concept.

"Oh, really? Uh, how much? Yeah, I mean that what's Brian Williams said. Yeah, a 290z, uh, yeah, thanks. hey, abrista: another soy-decaffe-latte, please."

I see a return of militant Yippies on the horizon.

Kinda puts 9/11 in perspective, eh?

Subpardude has got it right, we are all screwed by the insurance companies. People are dying in droves due to moronic and incompetent medical care, In my case, I was damn lucky I survived and if the doctor hadn't been such a moron, I wouldn't have gotten so sick in the first place!
I won my case, but it was 8 years before we got to court thanks to the sleazy, corrupt lawyers for the even sleazier, corrupt Insurance company they work for. People that are on here dissing trial lawyers obviously have never needed one.
And those of you who labor under the false belief that people who sue their doctors have not been severely injured by that doctor should shut the hell up unless it has happened to them. They should pray like hell they are never injured by a doc ( and live in CA) because the awards are capped in CA. to 250k and everyone knows 250k is peanuts if you need medical care.

Does he think the healthcare system is perfect? NO.

Health insurance is high enough . Malpractice suits just make it worse for the general population to get any kind of care.

It' s human trying to treat other humans. Mistakes happen.

first rule

Stay out of the hospital if at all possible

Medical malpractice took my wife and children. I acknowledge that mistakes happen and there are no guarantees, but what passes as professionalism in medicine is laughable. We are under the illusion that we are safe and well taken care of when we enter a hospital, but truth is that more things can go wrong than you ever imagined. Misdiagnosis, and bad judgment handed out by super human egos are just the beginning. Then there's the super-infections and bad treatment. There is more energy spent on getting you billed properly than getting you well. More reliance on magic pills and surgeries than healing. If your entering a hospital the first thing you should do is say your prayers.

If accidents could be stopped by mal-practice law suits, they would have by now.

Accidents happen. Health care professionals are humans- not perfect. Having worked with some of the best, I know that most of them are as careful as is humanly possible.

Maybe the problem is not with the doctors & nurses, but with the Health Administrators that press them to the limits of human endurance, in order to make incredible profits.

My sympathies to the Quaids, but from personal experience, medical malpractice is not a slam dunk.

Most states limit medical liability to the reimbursement of costs, and $250K for pain and suffering.

It is more lucrative to get hit by a UPS truck because there are no such restrictions on the private sector, and juries like doctors more than truck drivers.

6 years ago, my own wife was almost killed in a medical malpractice accident. 20 days in ICU, another 20 in the hospital, resulted in partial paralysis, constant pain and full disability. The jury, though sympathetic to her suffering, concluded the doctor didn't make the mistake on purpose, so was reluctant to punish a doctor for an accident. The doctor had been sued before, and had simply transferred his assets to his wife, and moved to another state when things got hot.

Perhaps the Quaids will use their star power and money to get an undisclosed settlement, but for the normal joe public, this is rarely the outcome.

My free advice to all, is to never expect medical perfection, get a second opinion, and research your doctor's past reputation.

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Wow, sadly we learn that Med Mal is not some Trick of the Trial Attorneys.

Too late, it's been made almost impossible to litigate.

Thank your Insurance Company.

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