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Maggie Mahar debunks 7 fake conservative talking points:
1) Limit Awards, and We Can Eliminate Thousands of Frivolous Suits
2) Caps Are Needed to Rein In “Runaway Juries”
3) Caps Bring Down the Cost of Malpractice Insurance
4) Fear of Malpractice Suits Drives Overtreatment
5) Caps on Awards Would Make Health Care More Affordable
6) “Every Patient is a Potential Plaintiff”
7) Americans Patients Are Extraordinarily Litigious
May 25, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
When many liberals look at a rag-tag group of neighborhood activists fighting against a corporation, their tribal instinct is to back the neighborhood activists. But when it comes to the issue of infill housing development, this gets the politics exactly backwards. Renter/home-buyer interests and housing developer interests are basically aligned. Not perfectly aligned, but about as well aligned as any political coalition is [...]
May 22, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
In this era of tight budgets, cities are looking for ways to grow their tax bases without asking individual households to contribute more taxes. Here’s the first place they should look. Different kinds of buildings yield different amounts of property tax revenue per acre. Many areas limit residential development to just one house per acre. [...]
May 25, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
When many liberals look at a rag-tag group of neighborhood activists fighting against a corporation, their tribal instinct is to back the neighborhood activists. But when it comes to the issue of infill housing development, this gets the politics exactly backwards. Renter/home-buyer interests and housing developer interests are basically aligned. Not perfectly aligned, but about as well aligned as any political coalition is [...]
May 13, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
The point of political blogging is not that you’ll directly reach so many voters that you’ll shape opinions about elections. The point is that for every couple dozen low-information voters, there’s a *political friend* who people ask who to vote for the week before an election. The point of blogging is to shape the opinions [...]
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Maggie Mahar has a B.A. and Ph.D. in Literature. She knows nothing about healthcare, but is being paid by the progressive Century Foundation, funded in part by trial lawyers.
I prefer to read people who actually know a little bit about the subject, t that's me.
Hey Jon,
If you want to know what malpractice does to physicians, go talk to one. They aren't too hard to find. Why do you think there are hardly any "mom and pop" physicians offices anymore? because they can't afford their premiums and who loses out? Patients.