Err, didn’t the tea parties kick off while Bush was in office? I thought they originated with the Ron Paul movement. No?
[quote]K2000 wrote:
tom8658 wrote:
How big of a deal are malpractice suits, really?
Just playing devil’s advocate, but if a surgeon cuts off the wrong limb, you end up with a guy with no legs/arms. If I were to loose both arms, I could no longer work (i’m software dev… though there are specialized input devices, they are extremely expensive and slow), should my lawsuit be capped at $250k, which is not even 5 years income for a green developer?
Tort reform is a red herring. Lawsuits aren’t why health insurance costs have exploded.
Also, the bar for pursuing a legitimate malpractice lawsuit (read 'not thrown out of court immediately") is already high. In order to make it that far, a plaintiff probably has a serious complaint.
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Tort reform is far from a red herring. The cost, to the health care industry, of having to practice defensive medicine is estimated to be between 100 and 200 billion a year. To think it’s not a huge player in the rising cost of insurance premiums is stupidity.
[quote]K2000 wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
- There were a lot of dissatisfied people during Bush’s years on both sides of the aisle. There weren’t any demonstrations, but I will lay you 1000 to 1 that a lot of those people at the tea parties were unhappy with Bush too…
Sorry, I’m not buying it. Either the Tea Party folks weren’t paying any attention to politics under Bush (possible I guess) or it’s just partisan politics (or both).[/quote]
I was one of the people that was dissatisfied under Bush. And I kept tabs on the politics going on. Of course, I didn’t really fully commit myself to the insane asylum known as PWI until the election season was looming large. Now, I haven’t joined any tea parties, but I’m hella dissatisfied with Obama too. There are millions more like me, and I can guarantee you some of them did go ahead and go for tea parties.
There are also a lot of people who are pissed at BO for his economic policies. Many of these people were socially liberal (and hence were deeply opposed to lots of things Bush did) but economically conservative. It is completely believable to me that they could become so incensed at Obama’s fiscal policy that they could protest what they might see as a gross dereliction of duty.
Is it really so inconceivable that ALL of those people were Bush fanatics? I don’t buy that one bit. He had an approval rating of what 20% when he left? That means 80% of the country didn’t like his job, so is it really unbelievable that a chunk of the tea party people were part of the overwhelming majority of people disagreeing with Bush during his years?
Further, the tea parties started while Bush was still in office. Lame duck maybe, but still head executive.
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
K2000 wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
- There were a lot of dissatisfied people during Bush’s years on both sides of the aisle. There weren’t any demonstrations, but I will lay you 1000 to 1 that a lot of those people at the tea parties were unhappy with Bush too…
Sorry, I’m not buying it. Either the Tea Party folks weren’t paying any attention to politics under Bush (possible I guess) or it’s just partisan politics (or both).
I was one of the people that was dissatisfied under Bush. And I kept tabs on the politics going on. Of course, I didn’t really fully commit myself to the insane asylum known as PWI until the election season was looming large. Now, I haven’t joined any tea parties, but I’m hella dissatisfied with Obama too. There are millions more like me, and I can guarantee you some of them did go ahead and go for tea parties.
There are also a lot of people who are pissed at BO for his economic policies. Many of these people were socially liberal (and hence were deeply opposed to lots of things Bush did) but economically conservative. It is completely believable to me that they could become so incensed at Obama’s fiscal policy that they could protest what they might see as a gross dereliction of duty.
Is it really so inconceivable that ALL of those people were Bush fanatics? I don’t buy that one bit. He had an approval rating of what 20% when he left? That means 80% of the country didn’t like his job, so is it really unbelievable that a chunk of the tea party people were part of the overwhelming majority of people disagreeing with Bush during his years?
Further, the tea parties started while Bush was still in office. Lame duck maybe, but still head executive.[/quote]
Excellent post.