Pennsylvania Renews Doctors' Subsidy
East News • December 19, 2005
About 30,000 health care providers would receive a state subsidy for a fourth straight year to help them pay their medical malpractice insurance bills, under legislation sent to Gov. Ed Rendell ...
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Subject: RE: RE: Unbelievable
Posted On: December 19, 2005, 2:36 pm CST
Posted By: Kenneth Kahn
Comment:
Mr. Tanner,
Good point. How long does it take?
Rendell is trying to campaign to Pennsylvania doctors from the back pocket of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (PATLA).
He just witnessed a historic election through which the voters threw out a sitting Supreme Court justice. And he knows he stands a good chance of being the victim of another historic move: PA typically reelects its governors. This just might not happen for Rendell...And so, he's taking a very popular act of the legislature and making it look as if it was soley his initiative. He needs both PATLA's money and the doctor's votes...so his best bet is giving the docs smoke and mirrors, while for the benefit of PATLA, steering PA away from any meaningful tort reforms such as capping pain and suffering.
Rendell is a man of paradoxes: fund healthcare with tobacco money, fund schools with gambling money...But hey, he's Philadelphia's governor...what should a mensch expect?
Subject: RE: RE: Unbelievable
Good point. How long does it take?
Rendell is trying to campaign to Pennsylvania doctors from the back pocket of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (PATLA).
He just witnessed a historic election through which the voters threw out a sitting Supreme Court justice. And he knows he stands a good chance of being the victim of another historic move: PA typically reelects its governors. This just might not happen for Rendell...And so, he's taking a very popular act of the legislature and making it look as if it was soley his initiative. He needs both PATLA's money and the doctor's votes...so his best bet is giving the docs smoke and mirrors, while for the benefit of PATLA, steering PA away from any meaningful tort reforms such as capping pain and suffering.
Rendell is a man of paradoxes: fund healthcare with tobacco money, fund schools with gambling money...But hey, he's Philadelphia's governor...what should a mensch expect?