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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Yeah, doctors are never biased when talking about malpractice issues.
What did you think I meant by "industry groups" in this context?
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I can see why you are sceptical of insurance companys but why doctors? Why woud they point their fingers at trial lawyers if the insurance companys are the problem. If trial lawyers are not the problem, and they implement legislation to deal with the false lawyer problem (and the insurance companys are really the problem), then they are still stuck with high insurance rates.
Doctors hate insurance companys just as much as they hate lawyers. So when they say insurance companys are not the problem, lawyers are, I tend to trust them.
Another way to look at is if you come across a farmer, whose farm is surrounded by foxes and cougars, and his chickens are getting eaten. The foxes are accusing the cougars of eating the chickens and the cougars are accusing the foxers of eating the chickens. If the farmer tell you that the cougars are not eating the chickens, but the foxes are, who would you trust in this case? Of course the farmer. If he tells you foxes, and you kill them, and it is really the cougars, he is still screwed. If he tells you the cougars are not the problem, the only reason he would tell you that is if the cougars are not the problem. He has no reason to lie.
But both the foxes and the cougars are unreliable because they have a strong reason to lie.
In this case the farmer is the doctors (because they are the ones having to pay the high insurance rates), the insurance companys are the cougars and the lawyers are the foxes. And not surprisingly on this board full of foxes, I am being told that cougars are really the problem.
