AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

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Assume each person occupies 2.5 square feet.

Let's assume ican doesn't have any idea of how close people would have to be to be one person per 2.5 sq foot.

Based on the pictures I saw ican, I doubt there was one person per 10 sq feet on the mall. Probably not even one per 25 sq feet.

The DC police allegedly estimate packed crowds on the basis of 2.5 square feet per person.

The DC police allegedly estimate packed crowds on the basis of 2.5 square feet per person.

The cost of private medical insurance is reducible, if the cost of medical care provided by medical practicianers were reduced.

The cost of medical care provided by medical practicianers is reducible, if the cost of medical tort insurance for medical practicianers were reduced.

The cost of medical tort insurance for medical practicianers is reducible, if the cost of medical tort rewards were reduced.

The cost of medical tort rewards are reducible, if maximum tort rewards were reduced to a maximum multiple of actual damages.

The maximum multiple of actual damages is reducible, if Congress passes and the President signs a bill specifying what that maximum multiple shall be.

Doctors Flock to Texas After Tort Reform

A clampdown on damages in malpractice suits has made Texas a very attractive place to practice medicine . . . . The most significant change is a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages per defendant, such as pain and suffering and loss of companionship.

Health insurance premiums rose 91.6 percent in Texas

A national report that was released today says family health insurance premiums in Texas increased 91.6 percent since 2000 " 4.6 times faster than earnings. . . .

You're still a stupid ****! Nobody has to disavow anything for you!~

Notice to all posters, I just placed Debra Law on ignore, thats number 3. For basically posting sewer garbage. Also, she doesn't matter any more, as she has refused to answer point blank if she sympatizes with or agrees with Marxism. I think it is safe to say that if you don't make an effort to disavow an idealogy that has been responsible for tens of millions of deaths, then something is definitely very very haywire there with that individual.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/health/entries/2009/09/15/insurance_premiums_rose_916_pe.html
Health insurance premiums rose 91.6 percent in Texas
By Mary Ann Roser | Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 12:48 PM

A national report that was released today says family health insurance premiums in Texas increased 91.6 percent since 2000 " 4.6 times faster than earnings.

The report by the nonprofit consumer organization Families USA says the rise in health care premiums for workers went from $6,638 for the average Texas family to $12,721 a year, but folks often got less for their money rather than more, according to the report. At the same time, median earnings of Texas workers rose from $23,032 to $27,573, a 19.7 percent increase.

“Our conclusion is that rising health care costs threaten the financial well-being of families across the country,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA.

The report argues throughout for health care reform, and as Pollack said, if it doesn’t happen soon, more families will be priced out of the market.

In a report last year, Families USA said health insurance premiums grew 5.8 times faster than earnings in Texas. This year, however, the growth rate in Texas is below the national rate in which premiums grew 4.9 times faster than income between 2000 and 2009.

Even so, Pollack said he doubted “anyone in the state will be delighted” by the results this year.

The report cited four key reasons why premiums have risen so quickly:

Increased spending on health care. The report says that nearly half of Americans have chronic conditions, with diabetes alone costing more than $174 billion annually.

Lack of regulation of the insurance industry. Insurance companies can charge more, plus refuse coverage to people based on a variety of factors, including dropping or denying people because of illness, the report says.

A lack of competition in the insurance market. The report says in some areas, too many companies have merged, leaving consumers with too little choice. The report claims health care reform will provide more options.

The “hidden health tax,” in which people with insurance help cover the uninsured. Last year, the portion that insurance companies charged families in insurance premiums to cover people who did not have insurance was $1,017.

Pollack said he believes insured people would pay less to cover uninsured people under health care reform.

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/05/19/doctors-flock-to-texas-after-tort-reform/
By Scott Hensley
In the last three years, 7,000 doctors have moved to Texas. So many doctors want to practice there that the state has had trouble keeping up with the requests for licenses.

Texas Capitol
How come the flood? A clampdown on damages in malpractice suits has made Texas a very attractive place to practice medicine, says an opinion piece in the WSJ.

The most significant change is a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages per defendant, such as pain and suffering and loss of companionship. “Before the caps, the average award was $1.21 million; it’s been $880,000 since,” the Dallas Morning News reported last year.

Malpractice suits have plummeted. In 2003, before the caps took effect, there were 1,108 medical liability suits filed in Dallas County, the Morning News reported. Only 142 cases were filed in 2004. Last year there were 184.

Proponents of malpractice reform point to Texas as a model. The surge of doctors has helped relieved shortages in some rural parts of the state.

But it’s not all sweetness and light down on the border. An 11-hour hearing in the Texas Legislature last fall featured “angry, frustrated doctors from Houston to Laredo” venting about ” overzealous oversight” by the Texas Medical Board, the regulatory body that got beefed up to safeguard Texans from bad docs when the malpractice curbs were enacted, the Houston Chronicle reported. Complaints to the board have increased dramatically, and disciplinary actions against docs has nearly tripled since 2001.

Tort reform benefits tortfeasors -- but unconstitutionally deprives individuals of their right to petition the courts for redress of grievances and to have a jury of their peers determine whether they have been harmed, and if so, what their damages are.

Ican, who falsely presents himself as an advocate of the Constitution, proposes that the federal government violate the 7th Amendment: In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved....

Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Ican falsely portrays himself as a constitutional scholar and an advocate for individual freedom, yet he engages in McCarthyism. In ican's delusional world view, if you're not worshipping at the feet of laissez faire capitalism and if you're not demonizing social programs, gays, blacks, Mexicans, arabs, aliens, democrats, liberals, the disabled, the unemployed, single mothers, and the working poor----then you're an UNAmerican traitor.