This is the most vague article. Multiple accidents? What year? And why don’t you quote the law? MGL….. Why does everybody take the word of authority? We need to question what the hell is being spoken and written about. Is this another ploy to raisw our insurance? Or are Massachusetts drivers punished again? Will we be punished for 10 years for offenses rather than 6? Did you ever llok at the year of the start dates for the Merit Rating Board? The insurance punishment system is a scsm. We are never not being punished. Has anybody ever thought about how many motorists that travel on Rte. 93 South going to work and returing home. It’s almost impossible not to get into an accident with the amount of cars on the road, and not only in the morning or late afternoon, but all day even until after midnight. What will happen in 10 years with the amount of traffic on the highway? There should be more efficient public transportation that goes all the way to New Hampshire.
If they wanted to get serious about making an impact (no pun)the state would impound the vehicles of multiple accident offenders. The same should apply for multiple DWI’s. Citations and fines obviously aren’t having the desired impact. The problem with our courts (and society for that matter) is that nobody wants to demand personal accountability and nobody will impose any penalties that might be viewed as “too harsh”.
If they have a law in place to crack down habitual offenders, why isn’t anyone enforcing it??? All our inept politicians seem to do is make new law when there are effective laws in place, but NO ONE seems to enforce them. What’s going on???
Most of the vehicles in question are probably Family auto’s not individual autos and impounding them will greatly affect the Family not just the one driver. No vehicle, a very difficult situation to put the family in.
Most of these drivers probably have an excellent credit score and are able to afford the increase in insurance premiums that the accidents cause.
The others will probably drive on without insurance or continue to drive on the now suspended license.
Maybe you will all agree that we should have an accident prison just like the old debtors prison and anyone involved in an accident is sent to accident prison until the family pays all expenses and promises to chastise and confine them to their room forever.
Merck Minimizes Accusations It Swindled the U.S. Government
Topics: corporations | crisis management | ethics | pharmaceuticals | public relations | U.S. government
Source: Washington Post, February 8, 2008
The pharmaceutical company Merck agreed to a $650 million settlement to escape charges that it routinely overbilled the U.S. government for medicines. The government accused Merck of giving or selling pills to hospitals at low or no cost to hook poor patients on expensive medicine, so that when the patients were discharged, they would continue taking the drugs with the government footing the bills. A spokesman for the group Taxpayers Against Fraud said the situation was “heroin-dealer economics … your first shot is for free, and after that it becomes more expensive … not to the hospital, but to Medicaid, which is paying the bill.” A press release about the settlement on Merck’s Web site minimized the gravity of the charges, saying the settlement was “related to disputes over the proper calculation of Medicaid rebates” and “certain past sales and marketing activities that ended in 2001.”
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the people that will be thrown in jail, etc. are the poor people who can’t afford to defend themselves. It costs $50 for a fee that Romney added if someone wants to appeal an accident.
It seems the only people agreeing that people should be thrown in jail are the ones with the doe-re-me that can afford to pay off a lawyer.
That is ridiculous. There is over 8 million dollars in the state budget for indigent persons to access, but the courts arent posting the judicial poverty guidelines. What happens with the money when it isn’t used at fiscal year-end?
This is the most vague article. Multiple accidents? What year? And why don’t you quote the law? MGL….. Why does everybody take the word of authority? We need to question what the hell is being spoken and written about. Is this another ploy to raisw our insurance? Or are Massachusetts drivers punished again? Will we be punished for 10 years for offenses rather than 6? Did you ever llok at the year of the start dates for the Merit Rating Board? The insurance punishment system is a scsm. We are never not being punished. Has anybody ever thought about how many motorists that travel on Rte. 93 South going to work and returing home. It’s almost impossible not to get into an accident with the amount of cars on the road, and not only in the morning or late afternoon, but all day even until after midnight. What will happen in 10 years with the amount of traffic on the highway? There should be more efficient public transportation that goes all the way to New Hampshire.
If they wanted to get serious about making an impact (no pun)the state would impound the vehicles of multiple accident offenders. The same should apply for multiple DWI’s. Citations and fines obviously aren’t having the desired impact. The problem with our courts (and society for that matter) is that nobody wants to demand personal accountability and nobody will impose any penalties that might be viewed as “too harsh”.
If they have a law in place to crack down habitual offenders, why isn’t anyone enforcing it??? All our inept politicians seem to do is make new law when there are effective laws in place, but NO ONE seems to enforce them. What’s going on???
Most of the vehicles in question are probably Family auto’s not individual autos and impounding them will greatly affect the Family not just the one driver. No vehicle, a very difficult situation to put the family in.
Most of these drivers probably have an excellent credit score and are able to afford the increase in insurance premiums that the accidents cause.
The others will probably drive on without insurance or continue to drive on the now suspended license.
Maybe you will all agree that we should have an accident prison just like the old debtors prison and anyone involved in an accident is sent to accident prison until the family pays all expenses and promises to chastise and confine them to their room forever.
Merck Minimizes Accusations It Swindled the U.S. Government
Topics: corporations | crisis management | ethics | pharmaceuticals | public relations | U.S. government
Source: Washington Post, February 8, 2008
The pharmaceutical company Merck agreed to a $650 million settlement to escape charges that it routinely overbilled the U.S. government for medicines. The government accused Merck of giving or selling pills to hospitals at low or no cost to hook poor patients on expensive medicine, so that when the patients were discharged, they would continue taking the drugs with the government footing the bills. A spokesman for the group Taxpayers Against Fraud said the situation was “heroin-dealer economics … your first shot is for free, and after that it becomes more expensive … not to the hospital, but to Medicaid, which is paying the bill.” A press release about the settlement on Merck’s Web site minimized the gravity of the charges, saying the settlement was “related to disputes over the proper calculation of Medicaid rebates” and “certain past sales and marketing activities that ended in 2001.”
»login or register to post comments | printer friendly version | permalink
the people that will be thrown in jail, etc. are the poor people who can’t afford to defend themselves. It costs $50 for a fee that Romney added if someone wants to appeal an accident.
It seems the only people agreeing that people should be thrown in jail are the ones with the doe-re-me that can afford to pay off a lawyer.
That is ridiculous. There is over 8 million dollars in the state budget for indigent persons to access, but the courts arent posting the judicial poverty guidelines. What happens with the money when it isn’t used at fiscal year-end?