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It's the cost of malpractice insurance.Typical liberal, wants to spend 10 times as much to completely overhaul something, when the best first step would be to remove/lessen the parasites.


Negligence laws (and the lawsuits they stem from) serve to reduce the number of fuck ups and to protect consumers from lazy careless people. Fear of lawsuits make people more careful. That said, in most cases punitive damage rewards are just retarded.

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Funny how our new fearless leader is a lawyer himself. Things that make you go hmmmm.



Speaking of retarded ... lawyers form the plurality (if not majority) of lawmakers for a number of reasons, including they are educated, tend to speak well, can understand complex issues and are well connected to their local business people for grass roots fundraising. To suggest there is a conspiracy to keep lawyers in positions of power is, well, retarded.

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Could it be because a doctor in this country only spends an average of less than 5 minutes per patient so he can get the maximum insurance payouts per day instead of actually taking the time to find out what is wrong.



The same criticism is leveled at Canadian doctors who need to see a certain number of patients a day to maximize their income (note - there is a 'top out' number which is based on a number of factors).

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Again, please point out the POSITIVE aspects of our current healthcare system, I think you'll be hard pressed to find any.


In comparison to the Canadian system, the US is far ahead in research and development (including pharma) and US hospitals are generally much better equipped technologically. All of this is a by-product of the profit based system. A hospital is more likely to purchase a second MRI machine when it can become a profit center for the hospital, for example.

In contrast, a typical Canadian patient may have to wait weeks for a spot in the MRI machine to assist in a diagnosis.
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