This isn’t a drug that has caused deaths. It’s not even inherently responsible for injuries… The promoting of a drug which has already been released as generic should cost Johnson & Johnson (the manufacturer’s parent company) 81 MILLION dollars in fines?

This nation is largely run by lawyers — lawyers who have systematically and categorically refused to enact any restriction or restraint against frivolous lawsuits, put any caps on damages, even refused to limit the PERCENTAGE that a plaintiff’s attorney can receive as compensation. They’re not about to rein themselves in. Of course not. It’s big money for them — HUGE sums. And we, the doctors and the patients, will be stuck picking up the bill, again and again.

Mr. Harkin went on to explain that “rate review authority is needed to protect consumers from insurance companies’ jacking up premiums simply because they can.” … UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest insurers, reported first-quarter earning increases of 21 percent, a gross profit of $1.19 billion. While insurance companies may not continue to realize such gains once some of the larger aspects of the new law comes into effect, 1.19 billion is still a lot of elbow room. The profits directly contradict AHP’s cries of unbearable burdens.

In Alabama, fears of “government health care reform” have caused people to give a con man their bank account info over the phone. In Kansas, people have been claiming to be government employees collecting payments for the newly required “Obamacare” insurance.

Notice that they’re not asking if you’ve been damaged by your doctor’s direct and negligent actions. They’re specifically planting the seed on suffering… If this country wants capable, caring physicians and dentists, it had better start protecting them from unscrupulous greedy lawyers and their clients by passing and reaffirming tort reform laws.

… it’s going on right now. People’s policies have already been canceled. WellPoint is claiming that the applications were fraudulent, but that’s both unlikely and unsupported. Waas says they were dropped “based on either erroneous or flimsy information.”

Many aesthetic surgeons place before and after pictures on their websites. Obtain patient’s detailed written permission before moving forward. Check. Place a black strip over identifying features if not highlighting facial features. Check. That’s it. Right? RIGHT?? Wrong. One surgeon learned that a de-identified photo had the patient’s name embedded in file name / properties [...]