Tort reform would yield tens of billions in savings. Yet you cannot find it in the Democratic bills. And Obama breathed not a word about it in the full hour of his health-care news conference. Why? No mystery. The Democrats are parasitically dependent on huge donations from trial lawyers.

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" - wise Limey guy

No offense Joe but as for Moder8...

Check this out:

Whatever health insurance bill is passed in Congress MUST apply to members of Congress and other federal employees.
No Exceptions.

If it isn't good enough for them, it isn't good enough for us.

#4 | Posted by mysterytoy

AGREED

I wrote my Senators and COngresswoman saying just that. No response yet from any of them.

B-b-b-but Krauthammer is a stupid, white "neo-con"...or "corporatist"...or...any other spooky-sounding label I can affix to someone or something without having a fucking clue as to its meaning.

And he's crippled, too.

Sincerely,

The Left

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" - wise Limey guy
#1 | Posted by Gimme_a_Scotch

Actually, it was a Shakespeare character trying to kill the king and take over the kingdom. He wanted to get rid of all the lawyers because he knew they were the biggest problem in preventing him from taking over. The next thing he wanted to get rid of was books and reading. Idiot.

strange...krauthammer was an obama fan BEFORE he was elected...eyes being opened across this nation.

What?

What a bunch of crap...nationwide, we pay only about 12-13 billion dollars in med mal insurance premiums a year. hardly catastrophic. The real problem is that there is a ton of medical malpractice because hospitals, especially doctors, do stupid things.

And all these conservatives favor tort reform until its their arm that gets cut off or their blood transfusion goes bad. Or its their kid that gets killed.

Maybe we should be finding ways to cut down on med mal before we find ways to screw the people who are hurt by doctors and their staff. But I get it...that's not the conservative way. And it doesn't attack Obama. So that's a problem.

strange...krauthammer was an obama fan BEFORE he was elected...eyes being opened across this nation.

#8 | Posted by nanc at 2009-07-27 02:

uh nanc...baby...

you are going to have to explain this one..I dont remember...maybe you are talking about him hoping for the best and wishing that he would fix things..

of course we are seeing just how wrong that shit was arent we????

I read this and he is so spot on right that I am sure there will be numerous questions of the legality of his birth from the left here...

MAKE SURE you all read the parts about the obama promise of 'revenue neutral' CODE WORD..TAX the stupid bastards...
and the comments on defensive medicine are right on
REMEMBER too that this smart man was a doctor at one time also...

I think she may be confusing Krauthammer with Paul Krugman.

Another example of ruthless Rethuglican talking points, who wage a highly disciplined class war.

One of the things these professional liars say, that often correctly take us all for idiots, is that most people are very happy with their current health insurance. Yeah right.

nut

so let me get this straight
I am supposed to slurp up the BULLSHIT about there being almost 50 billion people without insurance that we need to help but when an opposing view comes from a PULITZER PRIZE winner..well he's just a professional liar..
what a crock..........

I am supposed to slurp up the BULLSHIT
#15 | Posted by afkabl2

Hey, fish gotta swim, bats gotta fly.
It's what you do.

I think she may be confusing Krauthammer with Paul Krugman.

#12 | Posted by SanAntonioRogue at

AH YES krugman

the guy who this past sunday pulled the plug on every lib here who told us that bush did not HAVE a recession to meet his new administration.

THAT KRUGMAN????

" BULLSHIT about there being almost 50 billion people "

Must be since the total is about six billion.

Hey, fish gotta swim, bats gotta fly.
It's what you do.

#16 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2009-07-27 02:39 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
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ah doc..you old coot you..
nice work....

putz

50 BILLION

OOPS

sorry bout that...50 MILLION of course but ITS NOT MY FAULT

with obama spending every dime in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD...million..billion...the
y are all running together

and AGAIN>..the joke in washington

DONT tell obama what the next level is above trillion because he will shoot for that one...

" BULLSHIT about there being almost 50 billion people "

Must be since the total is about six billion.
#18 | Posted by Zatoichi

you.>,?/mean this country* this world
yEs?
But why limit YURslF?
~AKabibble

One of the things these professional liars say, that often correctly take us all for idiots, is that most people are very happy with their current health insurance. Yeah right.

Wait till they really get sick. Then as all rethugs to they get REAL religion on their death bed ala Lee Atwater. And I hope it was preventable.

will canada give me free health care if i sneak across their border and take my whole family?

"strange...krauthammer was an obama fan BEFORE he was elected...eyes being opened across this nation."

This is the Thread where the WingDings embrace a Nobel Prize wining, foreign educated Canadian, effete elitists, who used to like to Claim Bush was Going to be a Reagan 3!

Funny how they apply those "principles" (like reeds in the wind)!

The Party of No in action:
Washington, DC How's this for a health care plan? It will make your premiums go upin fact, it will double health costs over the next ten years. It will strip millions of Americans of their coverage. It will send our deficit through the roof.

That, as President Obama recently pointed out, is the health care plan we choose by doing nothing. That is the status quo, and it will be the health care plan we end up with if health insurance reform fails.

And although no one will come out and argue for a plan that doubles costs and cuts coverage, we are being pushed in just that direction by transparent attempts to kill reform for partisan gain. As one Republican Senator put it, "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." Another said this about efforts to cover millions more Americans: "We can stall it. And that's going to be a huge gain for those of us who want to turn this thing over in the 2010 election."

Party before Country. Every damn day of the week.

Obama has to horse-trade to get us most of what we need. The fleas come with the dog. We do not live in a dictatorship, despite the right's talking points. Im sorry, that was socialist or marxist or whatever it is this week.

What happened is that the insurance mafia wins both ways.

Nothing happens = they win.

Obama plan = massive payout to insurance mafia and the public gets nothing. i.e. they win.

When the people don't fight, the owners get what they want. ALL THE TIME.

"And he's crippled, too.

Sincerely,

The Left

#6 | Posted by Jak_Se_Mao"

That's true. PLUS, he's paralyzed.

If it's so awful, why do we have it for our veterans?

and it's broken, ron - they need to fix what they already have control of.

Given Chuckies political leanings, his last mane is either extremely apt, or a nome de plume.

The Party of No in action:

And although no one will come out and argue for a
Party before Country. Every damn day of the week.

#25 | Posted by northguy3 at 2009-07-27 03:40

bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit

so explain this

ONCE AGAIN and this time on SIX seperate issues.
the houston chronicle reports on area congressman and EACH AND EVERY OBAMA LED VOTE..
EACH AND EVERY DEMOCRAT LEACH voted THE EXACT SAME DAMNED WAY.........

and it made NO DIFFERENCE whatsofuckinever if the issue was good for the country or not

EVERY SINGLE VOTE ON EVERY SINGLE ISSUE FROM EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT VOTING THE EXACT SAME WAY

and not just this week BUT EVERY WEEK

70% of Americans want health care reform by next year. 25% say its perfect the way it is.

In other words, the NOP will pay no attention.

ONCE AGAIN and this time on SIX seperate issues.
the houston chronicle reports on area congressman and EACH AND EVERY OBAMA LED VOTE..
EACH AND EVERY DEMOCRAT LEACH voted THE EXACT SAME DAMNED WAY.........

and it made NO DIFFERENCE whatsofuckinever if the issue was good for the country or not

EVERY SINGLE VOTE ON EVERY SINGLE ISSUE FROM EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT VOTING THE EXACT SAME WAY

and not just this week BUT EVERY WEEK

#32 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2009-07-27 06:35 PM | Reply |

Easy to explain, its a LIE. L...I...E... check congressional voting records yourself.

so you are calling the reporters for a liberal newspaper liars for publishing those results which come from the congressional records???

maybe you missed the part where I said AREA congressmen....

I don't think the guy is looking for knowledge, he's a shit thrower.

Nothing you can do.....move on.

so you are calling the reporters for a liberal newspaper liars for publishing those results which come from the congressional records???

maybe you missed the part where I said AREA congressmen....

#35 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2009-07-27 07:03 PM | Reply |

So thats like what 2 guys? LIKE FUCKING ALL OF THEM MAN!! AMIRITE?!?!

If it's so awful, why do we have it for our veterans?

---------

vets, senators, etc...

Same bunch of stupid assholes who live to talk about getting government out of peoples lives also love state wars/patriot acts/secret prisons.

And all these conservatives favor tort reform until its their arm that gets cut off or their blood transfusion goes bad. Or its their kid that gets killed.

#10 | Posted by Sycophant at 2009-07-27 02:16 PM | Reply

Actual malpractice would still be addressed in the courts. Tort reform would take away the lottery-sized awards that have no basis in reality.

But that would make ambulance chasers cry, and cut off the single biggest source of special-interest funding for Democrats. And that makes you cry.

My HOPE is that little black boy succeeds in failing.
And America can be saved from this group of immature, clueless assclowns.

But for now, welcome to the obamanation of desolation, obama's 3rd world ghetto slum.

IMPEACH him before he does anymore damage!

"AFKABL2"......Today you have out did yourself, in the past GOATMAN, AN VERNON have proven to be ignorant Right Wing Hacks, but today you have proven that you may juswt be the most ignorant of all of the Assholes....Take a couple of days off you need some help...ASSHOLE....

"And America can be saved from this group of immature, clueless assclowns."

You're behind the times (as if anyone is surprised).

Today you have out did yourself, in the past GOATMAN, AN VERNON have proven to be ignorant Right Wing Hacks, but today you have proven that you may juswt be the most ignorant of all of the Assholes

Celery -- please don't give bl2 your love. Didn't we have something between us?

70% of Americans want health care reform by next year. 25% say its perfect the way it is.

Posted by northguy3

25% includes Illegals and lazy fucks who have always expected a free ride? I would have guessed 26.132%.

tort reform although still needed..only amounts to less than 1% of the total cost of healthcare premiums..fact not fiction

Same bunch of stupid assholes who live to talk about getting government out of peoples lives also love state wars/patriot acts/secret prisons.

#38 | Posted by Shawn

no doubt.. pissing away trillions in the worlds shitholes is a- ok.. but using a trillion to have healthy, productive populace for the next 10 years is the coming of Lenin's ghost..

the right wing need to be sterilized and deported to someplace harsh and desolate. No ideas, no solutions and no future.

and not just this week BUT EVERY WEEK

#32 | Posted by afkabl2

the party of No.. scumbags and cowards all. The new GOP..as un-american as hummus

tort reform although still needed..only amounts to less than 1% of the total cost of healthcare premiums..fact not fiction

bullshit. total fiction.

Krauthammer is a pompous dweeb who looks like a puppet from a Middle Ages puppet show.

Eberly you full of shit and since your an insurance saleman what you have to say means very little....we know your going to protect the industry.

tort reform should be expanded and awards should be 3 time higher than they are now.

The rich doctors and surgeons want all the money and protection but not the responsibility for their negligence.

The rich doctors and surgeons want all the money and protection but not the responsibility for their negligence.

Those guys are union? I never whudda known

The rich doctors and surgeons want all the money and protection but not the responsibility for their negligence.

Those guys are union? I never whudda known

#51 | Posted by Gimme_a_Scotch

You never heard of the AMA? That's odd. Maybe you should drink your scotch after reading the newspapers.

from above...

B-b-b-but Krauthammer is a stupid, white "neo-con"...or "corporatist"...or...any other spooky-sounding label I can affix to someone or something without having a fucking clue as to its meaning.

And he's crippled, too.

Sincerely,

The Left

#6 | Posted by Jak_Se_Mao at 2009-07-27 01:55 PM

Nope. Got it wrong--well sort of...

Krathammer is simply a tool of a mouthpiece
for the Right. He is strictly Party Line.
Go ahead, read his articles if you can stomach
them. They all read like Rush Limbaugh talking
points. Hence, he has Zero real credibility.

In essence, he is yet another overpaid mouthpiece
(ala Rush and O'Liely) toating the corporate line of the Right, that all is well with supplied side economics, that it isn't to blame for the mess we are in, that one should instead blame Obama for everything that Bush did to the economy so that we can return to power, and what you can't rationally blame on the Left try to label and stick the Left with.

The only ones that believe these mouthpieces are the hopelessly lost Rightys that can't wake up on a given morning without blogging their irrational hatred of "dat Black Man in da White House", before having their morning cup of coffee. (you know like
Afkabl2, Rightnut, Vernon, and to a lesser degree Goatman, on this site)...

Take a pill people. Obama's not that bad. The Stock Market and the housing sector are already showing signs of recovery. We will get through this, although it will be tough and there will be
bumps along the way...

"Take a pill people. Obama's not that bad."

Well, he damn sure ain't "all that good" either. THIS comes out of England.

the russians have something to say about Biden I'm
sure...see my other post on Biden's big mouth...

The Extreme Left bomb throwers. If they don't like the message, they villify, dehumanize, demonize the messenger...and usually expose themselves for the obscenely partisan hacks that they are. Lacing the invectives with profanity only reinforces the inanity of their posts.

"tort reform should be expanded and awards should be 3 time higher than they are now.

The rich doctors and surgeons want all the money and protection but not the responsibility for their negligence." - moneyWar

Its intersting we want Canadian healthcare, but not all of it, perhaps we should look at the whole Canadian system....

Its intersting we want Canadian healthcare, but just the FREE part, perhaps we should look at the whole Canadian system....

There fixed that...

#57: Thats what folks here in the states don't want to face.

Part of the deal is to give up your rights to damages if things don't go right.

Doc cuts out your left kidney when he was supposed to cut out the cancerous right kidney? $300K, thats all you get.