Bush protecting doctors with lawsuits?????? I hate them...dont U??

Question

I cant stand him, he said hes protecting doctors more now, so if a doctor accidently takes out ur liver instead of ur appendix, they are covered!!! They dont get a lawsuit. WTFFFFFFFFF

My grandfather was in the hospital, they gave him the wrong medication, and he passed away, and the hospital can never replace him

Answer 1

When you get sick, go see a lawyer instead of a doctor next time.

"Doctors" are not your Lottery tickets.

Answer 2

That is not what he said, that is not what happens, you need to understand the difference between a speach, policy, and law.

Under the current law, even when a doctor does nothing wrong, it is often cheaper to settle a lawsuit than defend it. Any doctor who has practiced any time at all knows this. With potentially high judgements, and long term litigation costing in the tens of thousands of dollars even if the doctor wins, it just makes sense many times to pay a bad claim than to litigate it.

What Bush wants to do is defend doctors against junk lawsuits. His speach was advocating litigation reforms to prevent the costs involved in this country from everyone suing over every thing. It is NOT the new law of the land just because Bush wants it to be. It's not even a policy statement.

The only way doctors can afford to practice medicine right now is charging an arm and a leg for malpractice insurance - even if they've never been sued. Finding a doctor who has not been sued is also impossible these days - every doctor in the country can expect to be sued at least once in their carreer, whether they do anything wrong or not.

Answer 3

This makes me mad, but for a totally different reason.

He's got the right idea, he's just going about it the wrong way. One of the main reasons our health care is so expensive is because of malpractice insurance to protect doctors against lawsuits. Every doctor maintains a malpractice insurance policy, which is ridiculously expensive.

In order to solve both problems at the same time (bad doctoring and high health care costs) we need some serious tort reform. People should not be able to sue for any more than the actual, real financial damages, past present and future, caused by the doctor. They shouldn't be able to exact "pain and suffering" from the doctor since having more money isn't going to take away the pain and suffering anyway. Secondly, the penalty for malpractice should be long jail sentences and having your medical license stripped from you, especially in cases of negligence. As it is now, a doctor gets sued, his insurance covers it, and he goes on practicing. What's up with that?

Answer 4

Hes not protecting anything but the insurance industry, they are the one who make the payouts on malpractice insurance claims and now he is going to make health insurance more difficult to get on the job, and so you will have to buy individual instead of group insurance at inflated rates. So the money goes to the insurance companies, the doctors and hospitals right now, have to agree to accept the money the insurers will pay, and who makes out? Big insurance companies
The frivolous lawsuit thing is garbage, before a suit is accepted, its worth has to be assessed and if its really frivolous, no lawyer will take it because they get usually get paid on a contingency basis so no win means no money for them. That's a big deterrent right there.

Answer 5

I think you might want to have another look at this issue.

I am not a fan of tort reform, simply because, in Tennessee, we don't need it. We have juries.

The point is frivolous suits, and the rising cost of malpractice insurance, forcing doctors out of business.

No, you cannot replace your grandfather. Sorry for your loss. There is no lawsuit that can replace anyone, and so the remedy is actual, compensatory and punitive damages.

Answer 6

Actually he said he was asking congress to bring him legislation which would protect doctors from bigger lawsuits. This is nothing new. President Bush has been asking for this for some time. The Republican congress was unable to pass the bill and the Democrat congress will not pass it either.

While I wholeheartedly agree that lawsuits, including medical, have gotten out of hand in this country, I also believe this is a dangerous precedent to set. I understand that in any profession mistakes happen. I also understand that mistakes sometimes tend to get corrected better when the cost is higher. Therefore I am against the bill.

Either way, this bill will not bring down the cost of health care to any affordable range for the average citizen here.

Answer 7

My sisters husband died of peritonitis after getting a biopsy with a dirty needle.

And my wife's aunt died on the operating table from "complications" She was getting a gastric by pass Sure she was a big woman but the complications were highly suspect. The doctor turned out to not even be licensed. Which by law means no malpractice. Only real doctors can commit malpractice.

I'm a average guy with 2 family members killed by doctors. How many more people have lost loved ones.

Go big Red Go

Answer 8

there's a extensive distinction between giving a speech asserting that Hussein is a danger....and launching a 300 and sixty 5 days long marketing campaign crammed with lies and distortion aimed in the direction of convincing the yank those that we ought to invade Iraq. Then, even after UN inspectors locate no weapons, going forward and invading a rustic and consistently changing your tale on why you probably did it. conflict is meant to be a final hotel - no longer what you do in spite of knowledge which says you mustn't.

Answer 9

Physicians are human. They occasionally make mistakes. Nobody wants them to be made immune from tort actions, only against ridiculous punitive damages and damages for the ever specious "pain and suffering".

If you hate physicians so much and have such an affinity for litigators, I suggest you call your attorney the next time you need surgery.

Answer 10

Probably one of the only things Bush HAS done[or wants to] right. The more lawsuits the more your going to pay for medical services.

Answer 11

FIRST OFF! We're having a shortage of doctors as well as a short in Med students... Wanna know why? Because of your stupid a** malpractice lawsuits. It caused their insurance to skyrocket, and now people don't want to become doctors cause the cost to is not worth it.

GOOD JOB AMERICA! NICE WAY TO BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU!