"Frivilous" lawsuits don't make it in front of a jury...and no one who has lost a limb...or a life...thinks there's anything "frivilous" about it.

Again, even with the slanted example you gave, the problem is not with lawyers or patients, it's with insurance carriers.

Get a new one.

If none of them will do it right, then start your own...it's the American Way, after all...develop a product better than the ones available, and start counting your money.

Tort reform is part and parcel the same as the current debate about health care...it's all about the money, and those who can't compete want a government backed handout to preserve their untenable positions.

Government doesn't work? Really? If you really believe that, doctors and pharmaceutical companies, and HMO's, and other health insurance conpanies...if you really believe that, then let 'em in the "free" market and beat 'em by being better.

Unfortunately for them, "being better" means "be affordable", something that none of them have any interest in being...in a "free" market, they'd get their asses kicked, and they know it.

It's ironic how the "free market" advocates are always the ones first to seek to restrict it when it actually results in the competition it's supposed to result in.

Fish on...

Todd