MICHAEL SAVAGE on TORT REFORM HEALTH CARE VERMINOUS LAWYERS

[tubette1]

tort reform has not lowered healthcare costs in Texas. at all.

[ultimategoobah]

wow. this guy is an idiot. why would you limit medical liability? Are you a fucking idiot, or what? The whole jon edwards thing in here is a red herring. So what? He did something illegal and got away with it. Happens every day. The point is that what he did is wrong, and he cant do it twice. Therefore, a red herring. If you want to change the law as it applies, go for it. but limiting liability? Wow. People need that money to pay for the damages caused, idiot! fucking scum.

[itscrazycock]

So why is it that we dont trust juries to make intelligent decisions? Why would we make a blanket decision that irregardless of the circumstance that insurance companies could not be forced to compensate more than 250K? why not trust the American people to continuing to partake in the best system we can come up with?

[jazzsnazz]

im black

[plasterdbastard]

Michael Savage is so classy in his ability to keep the topic strictly to the facts instead of talking about moles, how stupid anyone that disagrees with him is, and how lawyers are dedicated to destroying hospitals.

Tort reform has been a complete and utter failure in Texas, but does Savage talk about it? Fuck no. That would be a total detraction from his point. So, instead, let's just slander everyone and detract from reality...

This guy is a fascist. Why do you think he's on radio and not TV?

[genYprogressive]

Too bad none of these lawyers can sue the vermin insurance companys out of buisness.

[Wintermute01001]

The Congressional Budget Office found that over 10 years, tort reform would save $54 billion. In 2008 alone, we spent $2.3 TRILLION dollars on health care. So over ten years, tort reform will save TWO PERCENT of what we spent in one year. That's why Dems oppose tort reform, because it won't accomplish jack shit.

[bodryn]

There is already tort reform in 43 states. If tort reform worked, health care premiums in all those states would have gone down. Duh?

[murphyj87]

The only improvement tort reform shown by the data is a decline in doctors liability insurance premiums. But the reported 27 percent decrease in those premiums is dwarfed by the 67 percent reduction in malpractice payments, suggesting that liability insurance companies have pocketed most of the gains. The Texas data provide no evidence that patients or taxpayers have shared in the windfall at all.

[murphyj87]

• The cost of health care in Texas (measured by per patient Medicare reimbursements) has increased at nearly double the national average; and

• Spending increases for diagnostic testing

[murphyj87]

Health care system in Texas has grown worse since the 2003 tort reform law by nearly every measure. For example:

• The percentage of uninsured people in Texas has increased, remaining the highest in the country with a quarter of Texans now uninsured;

• The cost of health insurance in the state has more than doubled;

(measured by per patient Medicare reimbursements) have far exceeded the national average.

[kipptumor]

Facts don't appeal to right-wing turds. Of the entire cost of health care in the U.S. 0.46% of it is in pay-outs to settlements. Tort reform is like a tiny blob of antiseptic on a massive head wound.

[pabobfin]

I seldom agree with this man, Savage. However in this matter he is right on the mark. What we need is a Tort reform that puts the costs associated with a trial onto the losing party, so scumbag lawyers will think twice about lawsuits in which they might not win, but also would have to pay the cost of defense mounted against their frivolity by the innocent party. There ARE innocent parties, don't forget, and the cost of frivolous lawsuits affects all of us while making a few scumbags rich.

[CjL716]

You really do not understand at all. I just hope and pray that you or your family members don't need a "TRIAL ATTORNEY" to represent your MAIMED relative for Med/Mal.....

[cw6983]

Often I agree with Savage..but definitely not here..he is ignorant of the facts and purely sensationalist in his approach

[residentzombie]

he does make sense though.  Being a Libertarian and Constitutionalist it is up to each state to decide.

[theliberalparis]

the people that listen to this guy must be lobotomized, what a hateful racist piece of shit, why does he have a job ?

[thomasst2]

1) I do agree with tort reform, but at a state level.

2) Govt should stop subsidizing the industry with $450+ billion a year in of pork. That's $450 billion more than the public would pay on its own.

3) The DoH and AMA should stop regulating against natural preventative remedies and generic drugs and stop promoting expensive drugs and procedures that cause further illness and hence further expensive procedures.

4) Govt mandates insurance should pay for everything, not catastrophic only

[thomasst2]

6) Govt needs to stop subsidizing the licensing and education system with state and Federal grants and legislation, thereby stunting supplies of doctors and raising their prices

5) Customers should do their due diligence and self-education towards cheaper, preventative alternatives (like nutrition) to Govt and Big Med favored practices

7) Most of all...Govt needs to STOP printing and borrowing massive amounts of money (that it doesn't have) into our economy, making prices for EVERYTHING rise.

[cw6983]

I agree with much of what you say and you are clearly well informed..however, and while if there is to be tort reform..it should be on a state level..but the need for tort reform itself is a myth. There are natural obstacles regarding frivolous claims

[thomasst2]

How so? I admit I'm not too knowledgeable from a legal standpoint.

My view is more economic rationalization and cause/consequence of human action, notably Govt Intervention.

It is impossible for a firm to remain in business if it sells goods and/or services at prices customers are unable or unwilling to pay. It will not be profitable and it will go bankrupt. So something/someone is either subsidizing it or giving it regulatory privileges or both.

But I would like to know more about law.

[tarpumpphillips]

If doctor screws o, he screws up. Should a person not be adequately compensatedif that patient has been wronged? It is inconceivable that government should be able to place a limit on damages a person has suffered, what about future earnings if that patient is permanently incapictated? Health care reform is more complicated than people want to admit.

It is to the insurence companies discredit that reform is needed, they need to do more than they are currently doing.

[fajams23]

Dear you ignorant Savage worshippers.

1) Tort law is a state law issue so the federal government can't and shouldn't regulate it.

2) Sometimes doctors do fuck up and hurt people and we need lawyers to sue those doctors. So those lawyers are not ALL vermin.

3) Obama opposes tort reform because he's a lawyer? IF you believe that shit, you are dumber than rocks. There are lawyers that defend hospitals too. Are they vermin too? Get your head out of your ass you ignorant Savage worshippers.

[okplayer420]

Michael Savage's name is really "WEINER". So really these morons are "Weiner worshippers". It's all part of "Weiner Nation". I hope Weiner Nation secedes from the Union.

[racevws]

OH, WOW! Congrats. You can attack a man's screen name. Nice point. Shows how much you know! Thanks for showing us all the truth. We didn't already know that. You saved us all.

OBAMA 4EVA!!!! Bring on the Socialism! WOOO WHOOO!!!!!

[okplayer420]

Where did I "attack a man's screen name"? I said that Savage's name is really Michael Weiner. Which is true.

[theliberalparis]

an other one that uses the world "socialist" with out knowing what it means, good thing you have weener and fox or els you wouldn't know what to say.

[racevws]

You go ahead and keep watching MSNBC, using incorrect grammar, and trolling in month old Youtube posts. You wouldn't know socialism if you saw it, you ignorant douche.

[joescarafone]

I find it hard to believe, a man with John Edwards morals would do that.......NOT!

I'd say that affair was nothing compared to the BILLIONS people like him have cost the TAXPAYER in lawsuits.

Poor John.

[fajams23]

um exactly how does a private tort lawsuit against a doctor affect taxpayers?

[biggerturtle]

Shakespeare said " The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers" Macbeth

[rjsmitty69]

Great video!

[lionmatt1716]

I agree 100!!!!! John edwars is just like a black plague for hospitals.

[3rdworldinvasion2]

American companies spend more money on legal costs than on research and development, hurting our competitiveness...

Tort reform is a must if healthcare and insurance costs will go down... by-the-way, I am myself a lawyer and in the middle of a malpractice lawsuit as I write these lines.