Comments on: Now at Forbes.com: “Inside the Health Care Bill” https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/07/now-at-forbes-com-inside-the-health-care-bill/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 May 2013 19:45:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Obama Health-Care Plan Destroys Cheap Health-Care Options, Raises Taxes, Breaks Promises | OpenMarket.org https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/07/now-at-forbes-com-inside-the-health-care-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-55254 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:02:33 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=12449#comment-55254 […] Without the reforms opposed by Obama, we will never get our health care costs down to the levels of other countries, which have enormous cost advantages over the U.S. through things like lower doctor and nurse salaries, less defensive medicine from costly and unwarranted malpractice suits (America uses virtually unguided juries to decide malpractice cases, even though juries are not experts either at seeing through unfounded claims, or at recognizing genuine ones where the doctor was really negligent), and lower drug costs (mostly from those countries’ artificial caps on drug costs, which effectively forces U.S. consumers to pay for the entire world’s R&D costs, and partly from other factors like lower products-liability costs, since the U.S. refuses to preempt even lawsuits against FDA-approved drugs). (Liberal lawmakers are seeking to make Obama’s bill even worse and more costly by turning it into a “trial lawyer bonanza“). […]

]]> By: Dr. Mary Johnson https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/07/now-at-forbes-com-inside-the-health-care-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-55177 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:54:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=12449#comment-55177 Good catch, Walter.

Consider yourself linked, dude: http://drjshousecalls.blogspot.com/2009/07/overlawyered-catches-qui-tam-sneaky-in.html

I’m not a lawyer. I hope I got most of the legal stuff right.

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