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The Reason the Malpractice Problem Exists |
Medical care is being destroyed because of malpractice
suits. In Florida, an obstetrician pays two hundred
thousand dollars - yes, I said two hundred thousand
dollars! -- each year for malpractice insurance.
The excuse for these runaway malpractice suits is that
it is the only way to keep doctors honest.
Lawyers say that malpractice lawsuits are the only way
to punish bad doctors today.
That is true. Doctors cover up for other doctors, so
you can’t convict them in criminal court.
Medical associations routinely protect bad doctors to
a criminal extent. You cannot find out what your
doctor did wrong from a medical association. The
medical associations openly abet criminal doctors who
want to hide their past.
So instead of jailing the really awful doctors or
exposing them, we use these hideously expensive
malpractice suits as our only means of fighting back.
The result is that every doctor pays more malpractice
insurance and passes the cost on to us.
Instead of demanding that any physician who covers up
for another go to jail, the people have settled for
malpractice suits that are making medical costs
prohibitive.
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The Medical Cover-Up is like any other Organized
Crime
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When J. Edgar Hoover was head of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, organized crime was in control of New
York City. Garbage collection cost three times as
much as it should have. Everybody paid for it but
nobody dared challenge it.
Everybody in New York knew garbage cost that much
because of the Mafia payoff. J. Edgar Hoover
could not deal with the Mafia so he said there was no
such thing as the Mafia.
In those days, a New York politician had to get
approval from Mafia chief “Lucky” Luciano. The Mafia
ran Las Vegas.
Everybody back then said that no one could do anything
about Mafia power. They were wrong. A lot has been
done about it. After J. Edgar Hoover’s death,
Congress passed the RICO statutes that sent so much of
the old Mafia leadership to prison.
You can do something if the people demand it.
But until we start jailing criminals in the medical
profession, we will have runaway malpractice suits.
Until we start jailing doctors who cover for criminal
doctors, we will have runaway malpractice suits. |
Medicine, Vietnam and the New Organized Crime
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Malpractice suits are destroying medicine because we
will not jail criminals in the medical profession. So
we take the coward’s way out and the lawyers get rich.
We refuse to deal with the real problem and choose
instead to take the coward’s way out. The result of
refusing to deal with the hard reality is that what we
end up with is the worst of both worlds.
The most obvious example of this was our Vietnam
policy. In Vietnam, we didn’t want to really fight
the war but we didn’t want to abandon it, either. So
we got the worst of both worlds. We fought half a war
and lost it.
The longest war America ever fought was in Vietnam,
and it was the first war the United States ever lost.
We got the Mafia under control because Americans
finally decided to stop lying to ourselves and go
after them.
We dealt with the old organized crime, the Mafia, by
going after them tooth and tong.
But we can’t handle the new organized crime, the drug
cartels. The reason we cannot handle the drug cartels
is the same reason we can’t deal with medical
criminals. It is the same reason we lost in Vietnam.
We refuse to really go after drugs and dealers but at
the same time we refuse to call the war against drugs
off.
So we have half a drug war, with the State of
California on one side and the Feds on the other. The
Bush Administration wants to make the anti-drug forces
happy, but it also wants to make the ACLU happy.
The result is that we have enough drug enforcement to
keep the price of drugs high and drug dealing
profitable. But our enforcement doesn’t make the
slightest dent in the drug cartels.
Be it Vietnam, drugs or bad medicine, half a war is
far, far worse than a real war or an outright
surrender.
Going after bad doctors and medical associations will
be very, very hard. But the
present situation is impossible. |
Or
Get off the Pot |
Most
of our worst problems come from our failure to make a
decision and stick with it. Our immigration law is a
joke. We should either treat Mexican invaders as
criminals or stop acting like we have a law against
illegal immigration.
So, when the Washington sniper Malvo was caught as an
illegal alien he was let go. He did most, if not all, of
the shooting. Immigration law is only enforced against
legal immigrants. They are easy to kick around, so the
bureaucrats go after them and let outright illegals pour
across the border.
Criminals are preying on us because liberal judges let
them. We should clean out the courts, but no conservative
dares demand that.
Instead of going after the judges, conservatives beat
their chests and talk about strict enforcement of the
law.” What we end up doing is over-enforcing the silly
laws right along with the sane ones.
In the end “strict enforcement” just means you use your
resources to persecute legal immigrants rather than
concentrating on stopping illegal immigration because
that’s too hard to do. “Strict enforcement” is an excuse
to go after the easy targets.
A law should be enforced or it should be repealed. A war
should be never be declared if you do not plan to fight it
out.
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