Our health care workers live that terror every day. Trial lawyers prey on doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and health care providers to sue them for anything they can get a jury to agree. Trial lawyers target poor people with ads that promise "lottery" winnings without any cost- win or lose, to create a case against anyone with money. Trial lawyers cause our economy to be inefficient; raising costs for the law suits and insurance to protect people doing business.Here comes Micheal Moore with "Sicko". Trial lawyers get a complete pass- why?

That is why malpractice insurance costs are through the roof, and many good people are leaving the healthcare industry. In some parts of the country, there is a shortage of Doctors willing to deliver babies, because heaven forbid a baby is born and not perfect the parents will sue.

ya, i'm in health care, and i'm more interested in CYA(cover your &*$) or CMA if you know what i mean, than patients.

I've seen commercials for this crap and it disgusts me." Have you or a loved one ever been treated for [condition] with [medicine]? If you, you may be entitled to money damages. "Basically, they convince people that if you suffer ANY side-effects from a med, you're able to sue the hospital.Now, here's what they DON'T tell you:It turns into a class action lawsuit. Your side wins, and gets like $10,000,000 that the hospital has to pay each family in the lawsuit.Now, the lawyer takes maybe $3,000,000 of that, leaving $7,000,000 to spread around to several thousand families, totalling about $1,000 per family or less.On top of that, it was the hospital that payed it all out, and what does that mean? Why, treatment for everything at the hospital skyrockets in price, of course. How else are they gonna make up for that huge financial blow? Either that, or they totally ditch a lot of the conveniences and fire off several workers, or any combination.In the end, everyone ends up worse off just because some idiot lawyer decided he's not rich enough.

Unfortunately, Congress is polluted with lawyers. Trial lawyers are big campaign contributors. I think we are stuck with them.Sometimes, lawyers are necessary. Several years ago, I was in my car and got rear ended by a truck, while stopped behind a city bus. The insurance company for the trucker would not agree to pay my claim. After six years, and just before we started picking a jury, the other side settled.

Will you feel the same way if they take off the wrong leg?And then have to go back and take off the one they should have in the first place?Or if your obstetrician comes in from a party and thinks hes sober, but hes not and now your healthy son spends his life in a wheelchair?Should it be just fine for poor people to suffer without compensation because they are poor? Or are contingency fees, where lawyers get paid only if they win, be allowed so they can get the money they need for the care of the results of carelessness.There is not one single reason why we should allow one group of people to live without consequences and another to live with the results of those actions. If I hit someone I pay, I'm not above being sued. If, as a doctor, or nurse, I do something that damages someone, I shouldn't be?There are safeguards along the way, a suit can be termed frivolous and not go to court, or it can, of course be lost, but it does seem like no lawyer would take it on contingency if they knew it wouldn't stand a chance and they wouldn't get paid.But to give business and the medical communities immunity from their actions would remove the small measure of comfort you might need to care for their mistakes. And you would create a whole new class of people who would not be afraid of the consequence of their own actions.So by eliminating contingency you eliminate the...lets not say poor, because thats prejudicial....lets say middle class, the ability to seek redress unless wealthy. How much more should we give up so only the rich can skate?Class actions are different from a one-on-one contingency case, they are usually initiated for different reasons too. That could stand to be looked at. But thats not a good reason to not allow contingency payment.

If someone whose job is to never make a mistake makes a mistake which means that you have to spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair, is that just too bad for you, or are you entitled to some kind of compensation? Doctors and emergency rooms are free to make you sign waivers that say "if we mess up, you can't sue us." Why don't they? Because people go to doctors with the understanding that doctors don't mess up. When human lives hang in the balance every day, a 100% success rate is not too much to ask.