Are the Trial Lawyers

[DenaliDemocrat]

putting up any ads?

I live in Alaska, completely red, so I don't get to see many ads.

But it seems that some trial lawyers would put on an add with some people who really got messed up by some doctors and say "Little jenny lost her blah blah blah...and George Bush says its frivolous if she gets more than $200,000"


Anything out there like that.?

[mbali]

1. I don't think so - trial lawyers are WAY down on the totem poll of

popularity and they have to be careful about allowing the Repubs to glom them onto John Edwards too closely, so I doubt they would do something like that. There are other groups that can get that message out just as effectively without giving the Bush/Rove crowd ammunition to smear Edwards with.

[svan81]

2. I'll be a trial lawyer soon.

All of my professors and nearly every student in my section at George Washington Law School are liberal Democrats. I only know of one Libertarian kid and a few hardcore Republicans, but they are clearly in the minority.

There's a GWU Law Democrat group, but there is no GWU Law Republican counterpart. It's heaven.

Quite frankly, I don't know why lawyers aren't coming out strong for Kerry and Edwards (maybe they are but behind the scenes). Tort reform is so retarded. pace!

[mbali]

3. They're strong supporters, but behind the scenes -

they'd just be a lightening rod if they got too far out in front.

[Minimus]

4. check these out

good article on malpractice lawsuits and the root of the hardon bush has for ob/gyn docs:

....Soon after, in mid-July, congressional Republicans launched a hearing titled "Harming Patient Access to Care: The Impact of Excessive Litigation." The supposed travails of West Virginia doctors made a
perfect case study. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a close confidant of White House adviser Karl Rove, personally escorted a West Virginia doctor named Dr. Samuel Roberts to the House floor to testify. Roberts, one of only three doctors who testified, told the committee that he could not afford the insurance to continue delivering babies, and claimed that this year, "I will have to stop, leaving seven counties around me with no family physician delivering prenatal or maternity care."

As with so much of the malpractice campaign, Roberts's testimony omitted some critical facts that might have explained some of his insurance woes: In 1987, he pleaded guilty to five counts of cocaine possession and was sentenced to five years probation, according to the Charleston Gazette. In response, the state suspended his medical license for a year, though it later reduced the penalty to five years of supervised probation. (Incidentally, a year after his dire warnings to Congress, Roberts is today still delivering babies, according to his office.)

read whole article:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0310.mencimer.html


Also Assoc. of Trail Lawyers of America has good resources:

http://www.atlanet.org/ConsumerMediaResources/Tier3/press_room/FACTS/medmal/InsuranceRates_Research.aspx

[DaveinMD]

5. trial lawyers

are just about the largest funding source of the Democratic Party and its candidates. They are not doing Independent ads, but they bankroll plenty of candidate ads.

[DenaliDemocrat]

6. Well

I still think someone should show some people that got mangled and are pretty pathetic and tell the world how Little Billy lost both eyes an arm and his ability to congitively think, and GW Bush thinks its worth about $200,000 or in other words, little Billy's life is worth about $2500 per year according to GWB. That won't even buy his depends. I mean, its pathetic to stoop so low, but it needs to put out there so people can see how this will hurt working people with real damanges.


To tell the truth, I got rocked by my HMO, for a needed surgery. Luckily, I had the means to provide financially for myself, but considering I pay over $800 month for insurance. so I know how patients rights

[DaveinMD]

7. I wrote an ad like that

in a campaign class once. Its the kind of thing I like to use in my direct mail.

[blondeatlast]

8. Excuse me? Back it up, please...

And I'm a librarian, so make it an objective one, please. It's my job to cut the crap.

I was wondering how long it would take for the true colors of this thread to show.

[oasis]

9. I saw an ad that had the GOP and insurance execs in bed together.

It was cleverly done.