SCt HMO decision: know why HMOs want Fed not State Ct jurisdiction?

[AP]

It's because the Fed Cts are more expensive to litigate in, and because judges are more loyal to the federal government than to the states.

In the state courts, the rules and the intangibles would normally benefit a state citizen plaintiff over a national corporation. That's why the HMOs were so eager to keep suits against them out of the state courts. The expense alone will discourage many plaintiffs at the margins.

Nice Democracy we have, eh?

Consumer vs Corporation, the government will always do what it can to give the corporations a leg up.

(Incidentally, it looks like the SCt's hands were tied with this case. The statute was probably clear. If you don't like this rule, bitch out your congressperson for passing a law stacked in the favor of HMOs.)