<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Why Medical Malpractice Is Off Limits  : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://politics.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Why Medical Malpractice Is Off Limits  : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://politics.plime.com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Medical Malpractice Is Off Limits ]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/133838/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Malpractice suits with outrageous rewards and huge rates for malpractice insurance cost Americans $200 billion annually in health-care costs. Serious tort reform could help 300 million Americans. Democratic controlled congress has resisted such reforms. Trial lawyers rank among the largest contributors to Democrats but that is just a coincidence right?]]></description></item><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><item><title><![CDATA[A nurse is looking at 10 years in prison for reporting malpractice]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/138578/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Anne Mitchell knew that as a nurse she would be fired for reporting what she saw as dangerous, possibly deadly malpractice so she didn't sign the letter. What she didn't count on was the sheriff being a friend of the doctor and a law making her actions a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.texasnurses.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&amp;subarticlenbr=509" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">possible felony</a>.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[State Of Unfair Health Reform Costs]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/134666/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Fact is health reform is going to cost a ton of money. All of us will pay more. Some people from states mostly with Democratic congress people will be given special breaks however as an incentive to vote for the bill. Got to hand it to the politicians who are in favor of health reform even at higher costs - provided those who have to pay more can't vote them out of office.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young adults key to financing health reform ]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/133110/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A good number of the uninsured Americans are young adults who choose not to get insurance because they don't feel they need it. One way to help finance the trillion dollar bill is to force those who won't use health services to pay for them anyway.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life Imitates (Part Of) Old Joke, Tragically]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/138198/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Remember the old joke where the surgeon cuts off the wrong leg, but still has to cut off the right one after discovering his mistake? Then the patient&#8217;s malpractice case gets thrown out of court because, said the judge, he didn&#8217;t have a leg to stand on? Sometimes patients actually do lose both legs in just this way, this time in Peru.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Options To Replace ObamaCare]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135894/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Tyler Coven lists some of his ideas to help reform medical insurance and care in the US. Some interesting ideas, some less so. Some really should be part of the government's plan.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insurance Rates To Be Socialized?]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/80578/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Fact: Women tend to use more medical services than men even if you factor out childbirth. This means that women pay more for insurance the same as any other group that has a higher risk pays more for their insurance. Unfair says some who think the costs should be spread to those who don't use the services.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[60 million Americans do not use the internet]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/139092/1/</link><description><![CDATA[These findings are detailed in a 51-page report, &quot;Broadband Adoption and Use in America,&quot; based on a survey of 5,005 Americans. The survey was authorized by the Broadband Data Improvement Act signed into law by George W. Bush.<br/><br/>Of the roughly 60 million adult Americans who don't use the internet at all, 47 per cent cited cost and complexity and 45 per cent agreed with the survey statement that &quot;I am worried about all the bad things that can happen if I use the Internet.&quot; Thirty-five percent were of the opinion that &quot;There is nothing on the Internet I want to see or use,&quot; and one third thought &quot;The Internet is just a waste of time.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health-Care Reform: A Better Plan]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/130162/1/</link><description><![CDATA[There are any number of alternative health reform plans some far simpler and far less potentially harmful to the economy. One option would combine tort reform and a change from the employer-provided health benefits that is the current model.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pepsi ordered to pay one BILLION dollars to a  couple of dudes in Waukesha, Wisconsin]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/135220/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The uber idea they claim Pepsi stole from them?  Selling purified bottled water.  No sh*t.  One billion dollars. <br/><br/>For their part, Pepsi (who's lawyers never showed up for the trial) claims the statute of limitations should preclude the lawsuit.  But also that they weren't aware of the lawsuit until after the ruling.<br/><br/>I'd LOVE to see the board meeting where they talk about this one!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amy Yasbeck says:  Docs did everything WRONG!]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/50328/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Amy Yasbeck, widow of the late John Ritter is suing the doctors who treated him for malpractice, claiming they did everything wrong.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Doctor's Plan for Legal Industry Reform]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/132513/1/</link><description><![CDATA[If ObamaCare is needed to reform the medical industry, perhaps a reform of the legal industry is needed as well.   Physician committees can decide whether lawyers are necessary in any given situation.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctors&#8217; Group (A.M.A.) Opposes Public Insurance Plan]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/122084/1/</link><description><![CDATA[As the health care debate heats up, the American Medical Association is letting Congress know that it will oppose creation of a government-sponsored insurance plan, which President Obama and many other Democrats see as an essential element of legislation to remake the health care system.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Don't The French Get As Fat As Americans? Americans Eat Until The TV Show Is Over]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/science/l/51407/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Because they use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry -- to stop eating, reports a new Cornell study. Americans, on the other hand, tend to use external cues -- such as whether their plate is clean, they have run out of their beverage or the TV show they're watching is over.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timely Cancer Diagnosis Linked to Insurance Status]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/science/l/51095/1/</link><description><![CDATA[People who either have no health insurance or rely on Medicaid are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancers than people who have private health insurance, researchers from the American Cancer Society report.<br/><br/>We need a &quot;No s**t?&quot; category.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[50 of the most outrageous insurance claims ever put to paper]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/123273/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Every year insurance companies have to deal with lots of bogus claims. Sometimes the claims are just too bizarre to be false. We take a look at 50 of the most outrageous insurance claims ever put to paper.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Collector Cancels $25 million Insurance Claim On Stolen Warhol Artworks]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/arts/l/134757/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Although his paintings were allegedly stolen fro his westside home last month, Richard L. Weisman waived the $25 million he could have gotten under his insurance policy.<br/><br/>It was too much of a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2010051945_warhol13m.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> hassle</a> to deal with the insurance company.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House asks Justice Department to look for other places to hold 9/11 terror trial]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/138308/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Obama is starting to listen to those who say that 9/11 trials should be held somewhere other than the planned Manhattan. While still clinging to the unpopular idea of a criminal trial, he may be realizing that the expense of a multi-year trial in Manhattan would be immense.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasons Not To Become A Doctor]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/60799/1/</link><description><![CDATA[This is not just a question of career choice--consumers will be affected greatly by this shortage.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents of &quot;chunky&quot; infant weigh in on health insurance reform]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/134504/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Parents with an infant who is in the 99th percentile for weight are upset that their insurance company sees a baby that is fatter than 99% of others is unhealthy and represents a health risk.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting the best health insurance for your money]]></title><link>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/110041/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Health insurance can be confusing and expensive. Policy and COBRA information]]></description></item></channel></rss>