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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Op-Ed: Edwards Got Rich By Hurting The Poor
Ouch:
What made Edwards such a brilliant attorney – and a pretty good politician – is his ability to look you in the eye while picking your pocket and convince you that’s really not his hand on your wallet.
And so he stopped in the hinterlands of Wise, Va., to commiserate with the poor there who can’t afford health care. Even if they could, they’d have to drive a hundred miles to find a doctor.
“We’re here to help,” Edwards assured them.
There are plenty of causes for this sad heath-care situation. But Edwards wasn’t talking about one of the biggest causes – the cause he is among the most responsible for.
“The primary factor is liability insurance,” said Dr. Stuart Weinstein, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Iowa. “It’s either too expensive in areas like that or simply not available anymore.”
Virginia’s medical-liability insurance rates – driven largely by the very types of lawsuits that made Edwards a multimillionaire many times over – have more than doubled in three years, according to the nonpartisan Medical Liability Monitor.
In Edwards’ home state, those premiums quadrupled. As a result, doctors have fled rural areas or quit practicing altogether.
Now THAT’S an inconvenient truth!
(Cross-posted from Iowa Voice)
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Pathetic!!! Lowlife puke is too good for this lowlife puke. The only thing I ever see John Edwards helping with is hair care tips. – Lorica
Kind of like people who rail against frivilous lawsuits and then file frivilous lawsuits when they stub their toe.
You know, people like Robert Bork.
Also, Dr. Stuart Weinstein isn’t just an orthopedic surgeon, he’s also chairman of Doctors for Medical Liability Reform. And while it instinctively makes sense that if a doctor becomes a higher insurance risk their insurance will go up – the link isn’t always so clear cut. Particularly since in states where tort reform has been passed, insurance rates have not gone down substantially.
You could say that once the doggie gets the bone, it’s unwilling to let go. In other words, there’s some insurance company gauging also going on.
Lets face it, most plantiff trail lawyers are scum of the earth. They take on these so called class action suits and then take 45% of the judgements, it happens on a daily basis.
edwards is just another pond suckin ambulance chasing attorney at law who got rich on the backs of the poorer folks and happened to ruin many careers of alot of great docs, hell they can barley stay in practice now cuz of wack jobs like the breck girl and this is the idiot who wants socialized medicine.
I hope his wife’s doc has good mal-practice coverage.
An appropriately named moonbat weighs in:
Which has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, so let’s look at the rest.
Meaning that Dr. Weinstein has a better grasp of the issue than this leftist does. Thanks for admitting it.
It’s not that a doctor “becomes a higher insurance risk”. It’s not like he’s a driver who’s caused three accidents, and thereby become a higher risk. It’s solely because he’s in a profession that’s been targeted by a greedy plaintiff bar and uses junk science to win cases, and for whom the poster child is John Edwards.
Because tort reform needs to be also instituted at the federal level. State laws aren’t the only ones that predators like Edwards use to file suits.
But of course, the end result is exactly as the editorial pointed out. Edwards telling people without medical care that he’s there to help is like an arsonist complaining that the fire department took too long to put out one of the fires he set.
That reminds me… I need to get my hair cut today.
Yes, Edwards made some money as a trial attorney.
You all should read up on what he made his money on…like corporations that put out knowingly a defective product that could have saved a few parents and children a lifetime of misery for just a couple of bucks that the CEO was unwilling to part with…
I’m speaking of the trial involving the swimming pool circulation pump covers for one…
The problem is with most of the corporate opponents of Edwards putting forward trash talk is that they can’t even imagine having to be RESPONSIBLE.
I would dare most corporations to go back to the 1800′s where the predominant form of business was partnerships if they feel that they are doing such a swell job of being responsible and ethical. Instead most are deliberately lying whenever they can and then trying to hide behind a screen of corporate personhood like Phil Knight at Nike. Or some even resort to paying off Congress just to prevent any liability cases from moving forward. Insurance scheming makes it mandatory for the private individual to spend huge money just to prosecute because most State Corporation Divisions don’t even move on a flagrant violation reported to them for fear of teeing off some corporate party donor.
Some trial lawyers won’t ever make as much as Edwards did …like mine who took a case on involving only $40,000 in damages. I sure was glad my lawyer was there with his not only good looks and styled hair but also with a well paid for education. It took close to 8 years to win.
As for the cost of malpractice suits I just heard of a study just completed on states where the medical claim amounts went down and the premiums still went up…Just who is BSing who about these costs being all the lawyer’s fault.
Your product is defective Stephen. You can’t “even imagine having to be RESPONSIBLE” either.
Aren’t we all just so perfect?
Stephen opens with a whopper:
Actually, no. His targets of choice were doctors and hospitals, not corporations.
LINK
But it just sounds so much more credible if you can blame an eeeevil businessman, doesn’t it?
And what sort of cases did Edwards specialize in? From the link above:
One small problem with that: the medical theories Edwards presented – for example, that the CP could have been prevented by a C-section delivery – were unfounded junk science. And Edwards knew it:
Stephen may hate corporations in general and despise the capitalist system that has made our way of life the envy of the rest of the world, but he shouldn’t try to make excuses for a dishonest greedy lawyer by blaming them when they weren’t even involved in most of his cases.