Comments on: Sick For Profit By Brave New Films http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/ Politics for liberal newsgeeks Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:47:29 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: wasabi http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36300 wasabi Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:55:36 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36300 <p>Funny how the states of California and Texas passed tort reform measures and insurance rates are still rising at the same average as other states.</p> <p>Here in Texas, my insurance through a small company has gone up 15% - 25% a year for the past 6 years. Tort reform, huh? That’ll fix it?</p> Funny how the states of California and Texas passed tort reform measures and insurance rates are still rising at the same average as other states.

Here in Texas, my insurance through a small company has gone up 15% – 25% a year for the past 6 years. Tort reform, huh? That’ll fix it?

]]> By: kimmy http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36179 kimmy Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:41:36 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36179 <p>Just another example of money over people.</p> Just another example of money over people.

]]> By: Knut http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36178 Knut Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:41:00 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36178 <p>Mr VORE,</p> <p>You might look at the numbers. Malpractice settlements (and legal costs) come to no more than 1 percent of American health expenses. What happened to the other 39 percent that marks the difference between the glorious US of A and Canada (Canada has better health outcomes, by the way. Get back to your troll hole. It</p> Mr VORE,

You might look at the numbers. Malpractice settlements (and legal costs) come to no more than 1 percent of American health expenses. What happened to the other 39 percent that marks the difference between the glorious US of A and Canada (Canada has better health outcomes, by the way. Get back to your troll hole. It

]]> By: Teddy Partridge http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36163 Teddy Partridge Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:33:17 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36163 <p>“Tort reform” is just another word for protecting companies from paying for their mistakes.</p> <p>If we had worthwhile consumer regulation in this country, we wouldn’t need lawsuits. But absent consumer protection, lawsuits are the only thing holding companies accountable for their harmful actions. If we didn’t have consumer lawsuits because of “tort reform” we would have rapacious companies with no brake on them at all.</p> “Tort reform” is just another word for protecting companies from paying for their mistakes.

If we had worthwhile consumer regulation in this country, we wouldn’t need lawsuits. But absent consumer protection, lawsuits are the only thing holding companies accountable for their harmful actions. If we didn’t have consumer lawsuits because of “tort reform” we would have rapacious companies with no brake on them at all.

]]> By: alank http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36160 alank Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:30:14 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36160 <p>I looked up Vore and it’s short for voraphilia “a fetish in which one fantasizes about being eaten alive or eating another creature alive.” It’s not like cannibalism, as in the Royal Navy (”can you dig it man?”) where there’s a certain amount. It’s entirely imagined.</p> I looked up Vore and it’s short for voraphilia “a fetish in which one fantasizes about being eaten alive or eating another creature alive.” It’s not like cannibalism, as in the Royal Navy (”can you dig it man?”) where there’s a certain amount. It’s entirely imagined.

]]> By: PJEvans http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36154 PJEvans Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:19:31 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36154 <p>How many people do <em>you</em> know who have ever sued their doctor for anything?<br /> Tort reform is intended to protect businesses from their mistakes: look who’s behind it.</p> How many people do you know who have ever sued their doctor for anything?
Tort reform is intended to protect businesses from their mistakes: look who’s behind it.

]]> By: booyah http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36150 booyah Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:08:29 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36150 <p>I agree completely… it is crap. see the diary I wrote for the Seminal or read the Businessweek article by Turhane and Epstein about the unbelievalbe inside work done on the legislation by the the insurance cos.</p> <p>Lord have mercy… talk about the fox guarding the henhouse…</p> I agree completely… it is crap. see the diary I wrote for the Seminal or read the Businessweek article by Turhane and Epstein about the unbelievalbe inside work done on the legislation by the the insurance cos.

Lord have mercy… talk about the fox guarding the henhouse…

]]> By: tbsa http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36140 tbsa Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:54:59 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36140 <p>This should be run on the evening news. I agree wholeheartedly with Tarheel. The need to spotlight how hard the industry is fighting reform is critical to ending up with something decent.<br /> Another thing, most of the teabaggers and the so called angry mob are too stupid to realize their medicare is government run healthcare. The Reps need to ask if they are willing to give that up since they think government run healthcare is so f’ing gawd awful.</p> This should be run on the evening news. I agree wholeheartedly with Tarheel. The need to spotlight how hard the industry is fighting reform is critical to ending up with something decent.
Another thing, most of the teabaggers and the so called angry mob are too stupid to realize their medicare is government run healthcare. The Reps need to ask if they are willing to give that up since they think government run healthcare is so f’ing gawd awful.

]]> By: TarheelDem http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36136 TarheelDem Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:50:04 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36136 <p>And which House members are you whipping for the Wiener Amendment?</p> And which House members are you whipping for the Wiener Amendment?

]]> By: Teddy Partridge http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36135 Teddy Partridge Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:48:55 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/06/sick-for-profit-by-brave-new-films/#comment-36135 <p>No villain, no win.</p> No villain, no win.

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