Yet, the democratic party (and their liberal ideology) has created the flourishing environment for these "ambulance-pursuers," as malpractice lawsuits-- with lottery payout-sized rewards-- drive up the cost of health insurance for not only the physician, but ultimately destroy the quality (and purpose) of the excellent health care system that currently exists in this country.

Hence, trial lawyers freely advertise to poor & desperate people to file frivolous law suits: "If we DON"T win your case...you owe nothing." And if they do? Trial lawyers reap a fat 30 - 40% of the booty, which often exceeds 7 figures. And we only need recall last fall when an ambulance-chasing lawyer ran for president, reputedly on a "health care reform" platform. 

Of course, the liberal media not once ever called on John Edwards to account for $50 million (paid by health insurance companies) he siphoned from the industry over his "successful" career.

Yet how many doctors actually make $50 million in a lifetime? And these "rewards" go to whom? The legions (leeches) of trial lawyers who wield extraordinary behind-the-scenes influence in how (and why) doctors must deviate their practices-- from sound preventive medicine-- to a strategy amounting to no less than "defensive desperation."

But who pays for all this? Of course, it's everyone else! Ergo, the health care crisis, and why health professionals pay extortion-sized premiums for malpractice insurance, forcing patients to undergo needless examinations, tests, prescriptions-- and even unnecessary operations.

This why doctors will order an expensive brain scan when a patient reports a headache. This is why doctors must run tests for diabetes when patients report any tingling or numbness. The doctors fear reprisal from the courts-- the dreaded malpractice lawsuit.

Yet the group who complains the most voiciferously about costs (and the need for health care nationalization) are the very same people -- the senate democrats-- who allow these cretins (trial lawyers) to wage a covert, escalating war on both our medical and drug communities.

But in all the health care debates, is this is EVER mentioned?

And as long as trial lawyers hold the malpractice Sword of Damocles over the AMA, universities might as well initiate a law curriculum to go along with each medical degree-- it could go a long way to solving every U.S. doctor's main problem-- our legal system.

Medical insurance premiums keep doubling every four or five years; employer costs keep rising; and as employers write off their costs to the government, the deficit keeps ballooning-- the REAL health care crisis. 

Back in the 19th century, Abraham Lincoln despised those (lawyers) who were members of his own profession, calling them..."corrupt exploiters"...who are collectively ruining this country faster than any destructive force with which we have been previously faced."

Currently, out of the total 99 seated U.S. Senators, there is an astounding majority of 61 who are attorneys, who continue to act as shills for the trial lawyer lobby, and take in their huge campaign contributions.

In 2003, republican-sponsored legislation in the Senate was defeated that would have capped "non-economic damages" in medical liability rewards, despite overwhelming support from the AMA (American Medical Association), and more than 50 other groups representing physicians, insurers, and patients.

The Patients First Act (S 11) would have limited damages for pain and suffering at $250,000. Senate democrats opposed the bill saying..."the recent steep increases in liability premiums have been caused by insurers, that previously maintained premiums at artificially low levels, but made up for it with big gains on stock market investments."

Basically. it amounted to appeasement of the legal lobby-- "do not bite the hand that feeds thee!" This elite-- comprised of unscrupulous malpractice lawyers-- number only in the thousands, but make life miserable for tens of millions.

And now, it's really getting sickening: Barack Obama is promising to fix our health care system--yet another opportunity to not ever "let a crisis go to waste". Once again, the democrats have succeeded in framing the debate as a "health-care crisis"-- rather than a legal one-- and have ignored the fact that legal misconduct in the medical industry has only gotten worse.

But given Obama's position (and his cozy relationship with trial lawyers), nothing will get done.

On his Saturday radio address, Mr. Obama referred to his health reform proposition as "my plan." But of course , there isn't yet any defined Obama plan; he apparently favors the one drafted by Ted Kennedy: 

a) all Americans will have health care

b) employers must contribute to the costs

c) private insurers must pay out a specified percentage of their premium revenues in benefits.

d) fines will be imposed on those who don't provide health care for their employees; thus it "incentivizes" employers to terminate their current health benefits, and simply pay the fine-- which is sure to be less expensive.

This will force at least 100 million employees (who are happy with their current health care) into the government plan, as well as create a new bureaucracy to impose and enforce the fines.

POINT-- If corporations are not motivated to create innovative new drugs, technologies, and facilities (i.e. profitability), why then would they work to develop them?

POINT-- If individuals are not motivated to devote the time and energy to becoming a physician (i.e. income), why would they study to become doctors?

POINT-- When individuals are “given” health care by the government (leading to higher taxes on the producers in society) where/when will these same individuals get the motivation to work?

The failures of the socialist/communist experiments have not ever worked ANYWHERE else; not Cuba; not Canada, and not in England. And there is no reason to believe it could ever succeed here.

The Obama administration has but one purpose in providing healthcare: it's nothing but another cover to transfer wealth from the haves to the have-nots; another excuse to increase the government bureaucracy-- essentially amounting to buying votes for Mr. Obama's re-election-- keeping one-party tyranny in place for years to come.

And employers have no business providing healthcare. It is a leftover from our post-World War II recovery. The IRS employer-tax exclusion provided an excuse for over-insured Americans toward becoming irresponsible with their own personal health, and lacking "skin-in-the-game" (motivation) to keep health costs under control. 

Just get rid of all the "corrupt exploiters"-- those greedy, no-good *&^%!!@** trial lawyers-- and let free market capitalism take care of the rest.