Democrats stoop to new low

[Rude]

Originally posted by rpm371
Do any of you even know WHY the Dem's walked? The Ultra-Right Republicans are attempting to limit Medical Malpractice Suits at some rediculously low amount ($100,000 I belive, may be wrong).
This is WONDERFUL you say? Wait until a member of your family is horribly killed or permenantly disabled by some quack and you have to pay for a lifetime of expences. It's a bad bill and they don't have the votes to overturn. WOO HOO VOTE REPUBLICAN, We'll make sure the rich stay that way.

You should get your facts straight before posting lies....nice try.

BTW....what qualifies you to grade this bill good or bad....are you a physician, work for an insurance company or an attorney? Is this just your uneducated personal opinion?

Insurance Companies are the problem, reforming tort is not the answer.

The above statement is as wrong as wrong could be....oh well, I don't know why I respond to these threads any longer...your answer to this will only prolong the ignorance.

[JBA]

Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
I think the two party system sucks, but I'd really like to see what kind of "government" would come out of Texas without the dems involved. I'm sure it would be great fun to watch from the outside.

We could take a pool to determine just how long before we would get to see fences and armed guards at the NM, OK, AR, and LA borders.

Considering the 40,000 ILLEGAL aliens flooding into the country and bankrupting the medical systems of these states, and consequently raising medical cost for all of us.

 I'd say not soon enough.

[JBA]

Malpractice insurance for an Ob/Gyn in the state of Massachusetts is $85,000 a year.

[ra]

Originally posted by JBA
Malpractice insurance for an Ob/Gyn in the state of Massachusetts is $85,000 a year.

Yeah, but you get to look at all those nekkid women.

[Montezuma]

Originally posted by GtoRA2

I bet it was not the republicans in California who got the law in place here.
 

That law was passed in 1975, I'm not sure who controlled the legislature, the governor was either Reagan or Brown.
 
Bush now wants to take this bad law nation-wide.  If you want to be educated on the issue, check:

http://www.ftcr.org/healthcare/medmal.php

[Udie]

The tort reform legislation is NOT the reason they pulled this stunt.  The "Chicken D's" left the state because of the redistricting legislation that was to be debated yesterday.  They are walking out on thier constitutional duty to this state and this nation.  The best part is that these are the rules that THEY made in thier century long control of the Texas legislature. The same rules they used over the Republicans for 100+ years.  Somehow those rules shouldn't aply now though

 The democrat party has nothing left.  No ideas, nothing but obstruction.  They are (and have been for many many years) all smoke and mirrors.

[GtoRA2]

Montezuma
 The law effected my life in a horible way, but it is a good law. the problem is the scumbag lawyers who would not take the case because the amount was too low and their cut would not be big enough.


I am not greedy nor is my mom, she could have lived fine on the 200k. She is living on FAR FAR less now, with disability and Socail security, and the limited work she can do from home.

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by Udie
The democrat party has nothing left.  No ideas, nothing but obstruction.  They are (and have been for many many years) all smoke and mirrors.

This reminds me of a comment that Lyndon Johnson made in private to, I think, Senate Majority Leader Mansfield back in 1964.  I paraphrase:

"We'd actually be in trouble if the Republicans were for something instead of just against everything."

Ironic that the shoe's on the other foot in many ways.  It's not even that Democrats don't have ideas, but they seem utterly incapable of either elucidating them or distinguishing them from Republican positions.  They appear unable to set any sort of national agenda, allowing the Republicans instead to consistently choose winning issues that require Democratic obstruction.

-- Todd/Leviathn

[Udie]

Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
This reminds me of a comment that Lyndon Johnson made in private to, I think, Senate Majority Leader Mansfield back in 1964.  I paraphrase:

"We'd actually be in trouble if the Republicans were for something instead of just against everything."

Ironic that the shoe's on the other foot in many ways.  It's not even that Democrats don't have ideas, but they seem utterly incapable of either elucidating them or distinguishing them from Republican positions.  They appear unable to set any sort of national agenda, allowing the Republicans instead to consistently choose winning issues that require Democratic obstruction.

-- Todd/Leviathn

 yeah that's what I said

[Ripsnort]

Ones been arrested :
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86773,00.html

This is some funny chit!  She asks to drive herself, trooper says "NOPE!" and cuffs her.

[Udie]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Ones been arrested :
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86773,00.html

This is some funny chit!  She asks to drive herself, trooper says "NOPE!" and cuffs her.

 HEHE  they're locked down at the capital too,  I don't think she can leave until this is settled  Now I hope it lasts a bit longer   They only need to capture a few more and we have the quarum needed to debate and vote.

 One side note to how dishonest dems are.... 12 of them told the speaker of the house that they would NOT be absent and would be there to debate and vote.  I think 1 or 2 actually showed up to them for keeping thier word.  The rest are scum bags and should be deported to france.....

[rpm]

Originally posted by Martlet
What makes him a quack?  Because he made a mistake.  Boohoo.  Your daughter has a permanant scar on her little toe.  That hardly entitles you to 100 mil.  Even if the doctor had made a mistake.
 

What makes him a quack? He failed to recognise a SEVERE problem in an overdue pregnancy. He failed to run several tests that would have pointed out the problem several weeks earlier. My wife was 3 weeks overdue and he showed no signs of concern and told us everything was normal.  A visiting MD spotted it immediately and ordered emergency surgery.

The scar on her little toe? Permanent Brain damage resulting in her having 4 very painful surgeries before her 3rd birthday. All of them paid in full by me, no insurance. Insurance refused to cover her. She died by an unrelated incident 1 week before her 3rd birthday.

Did I sue? You bet your a** I did. I was not looking for a windfall, I was looking for justice.  When it's your children that are involved you will see things in a different light.

[Fatty]

Then file a criminal complaint.

[GtoRA2]

Sorry for your loss,

But there is no justice in money.

suing him prolly didn't even stop his practice.

[Martlet]

Originally posted by rpm371
What makes him a quack? He failed to recognise a SEVERE problem in an overdue pregnancy. He failed to run several tests that would have pointed out the problem several weeks earlier. My wife was 3 weeks overdue and he showed no signs of concern and told us everything was normal.  A visiting MD spotted it immediately and ordered emergency surgery.

The scar on her little toe? Permanent Brain damage resulting in her having 4 very painful surgeries before her 3rd birthday. All of them paid in full by me, no insurance. Insurance refused to cover her. She died by an unrelated incident 1 week before her 3rd birthday.

Did I sue? You bet your a** I did. I was not looking for a windfall, I was looking for justice.  When it's your children that are involved you will see things in a different light.

As I said, it doesn't make him a quack.  He made a mistake.  How many lives has he saved?  My sister was 3 weeks overdue, and delivered a healthy baby girl.  While I am sorry for your loss, and have no information to say whether he was at fault one way or another, I hardly think that puts him into the "quack" category.