So, in your opinion, the reason health care costs are so high is because of people who have been injured and maimed by doctors ineptness???

That doesn't make sense to me.

If they want less lawsuits, they should do a better job, make less mistakes.

When your car insurance, home owners insurance etc. goes up do you go to your boss and demand a raise because your insurance has gone up?
I guess you could try but I doubt it would get you too far.

Yet doctors and insurers claim the reason they have to increase rates and prices is due in part to the raising cost of malpractice insurance. That is absurd.

How many doctors do you see driving 15 year old cars or living in low rent apartments because they cannot make a living due to the cost of malpractice insurance?
0?

Health care costs are raising at more than 5 times the inflation rate.
Why? Not because of lawsuits.

Should only people of means have a right to quality health care?

As an American, I always felt that if I have been fortunate enough to have financial success as a result of my being able to take advantage of what this great country has to offer, I also have a responsibility to help those who are not as fortunate.

I am not even close to being rich, sometimes wonder how I am going to pay my bills, but feel very blessed that I am where I am.

There are alot of people alot worse off than me and I look at paying taxes as part of the cost of having the privilage of living in this great country.

Wow, I need to put my soapbox back in the closet. ;-) 

Greg

Your argument here reminds me of when I lived in an Ultra Conservative town in Washington where most of the people were growers of apples and cherries. The editorial pages and Letters to the Editor would be filled with the growers B*tch'n about all the lazy good for nothing bums on welfare.

Than when there was a crop failure the growers were crying in their soup wanting the Government to step in with $$$ for them and I would laugh like hell listening to them trying to explain that what they want is different from welfare.

I won't even get into the Government paying farmers not to grow crops.

That is funny.

I'm a little suprised at how many Dems you Montanians have elected to the Senate thorughout the years.

I always thought that the western states tended to be conservitive.

Goes to show you what I know.

Greg

I am not smart enough to know how to solve the problems of the world and I am really glad it is not my job. It is my job to look at the philosophies of the candidates who are running for office and see if I agree or disagree. I have certain criteria that are important to me and if a candidate of any party shares those philosophies then it is my job to delve further into who they are and then make a decision as to who I will vote for. The government that we have recently had has not met my particular criteria.

Dee

Philadelphia, PA (Really Bensalem)