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Cheney, Edwards Spar Over Medical Liability Issue During VP Debate

National News • October 6, 2004
Around and around they went. For some 90 minutes, Vice President Dick Cheney and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards debated and most often, disagreed on the issues, during the first and only Vice ...

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Subject: The REAL problem

Posted On: October 7, 2004, 2:32 pm CDT
Posted By: Kathy
Comment:
It would be good if we got control on frivilous lawsuits (and assess fines to those lawyers who bring them), but it would also make sense if we could simply rid the system of incompetent practitioners. Why not fix the CAUSE of lawsuits (medical mistakes) and then establish rational settlement strategies when there has been a medical mistake?

Attacking these two areas, combined with caps on insurance companys' and providers' profit margins would put the whole system into a manageable spectrum.

The whole issue needs to be separated from partisan politics.
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Oct 7, 2004, 2:36 pm
The REAL problem Kathy
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