Why Health Insurance Costs so Much!

National health insurance will drive this nation into bankruptcy. If the lawyers didn't own the courts and use them to enrich themselves, with the final cost going to people who have to pay for health insurance, things would be the way they were sixty years ago. Doctors didn't have someone stop you at the door and ask for proof of health insurance, they treated you. A lot of people didn't even have health insurance, not because they couldn't afford it but because they didn't need it. They could afford whatever doctors charged. Doctors didn't worry about some damned shyster lawyer filing a law suit against them because they left a scar on the lawyer's client when they removed the appendix. $100,000 later in court fees we find out that the scar the doctor left was half an inch longer than normal so the lawyer selected jury awards the person a million dollars in pain and suffering awards and who pays it? Easy, the people who have to pay for health insurance.

I was in Florida Twenty or so years ago when a law restricting pain and suffering awards to $50,000 was presented to the public for passage. The Florida Bar Associations ran an ad over and over opposing the law saying that it didn't matter if you had a million dollars in medical expenses you would only be able to collect $50,000 in pain and suffering awards. A neighbor of mine voted against the law on that basis. I couldn't convince him that the ad was purposefully deceptive. If you had a million dollars in medical expenses you would still be able to collect the full million dollars. However, your pain and suffering award would be limited to $50,000. He didn't believe me, he believed, from the purposefully deceitful ad, that you would not be able to collect the million dollars in medical expenses. The law got voted down because enough people were deceived by the ad. Purposefully deceiving people is what lawyers do best.