Bill's Notes

[Industrialblog, April 27, 2004]
So I go to vote and discover ...
I never changed my voter registration. I am still a registered Democrat. Still. A Democrat.

While I'm far from the most conservative Republican, I wonder if I am in fact the most conservative Democrat in the U.S. right now.

So I had to vote in the Democratic Presidential Primary. (I picked John Edwards.)

There it is. I'm still a Democrat. People lied! Bush's snide!
ctl (mail) (www):
What? You picked the trial lawyer who got rich off of suing (probably) innocent doctors and driving the costs of health care (through malpractice insurance) up?

Couldn't you have written in Joe Liberman? Or better yet, Howard Dean?
4.27.2004 10:38pm
Bill:
I wasn't doing a write-in. Too involved.

My other choices were Howard Dean (no way), John Kerry (not yet), Dennis Kucinich (not a chance) and Lyndon LaRouche (never). Edwards seemed like the best of the bunch, except maybe Kerry.


4.27.2004 10:39pm
ctl (mail) (www):
I don't know. Howard Dean does have something going for him.
4.28.2004 5:48am
Bill:
Howard Dean worried me. I was glad he was out.

4.28.2004 10:29am
Super G:
Edwards was the best, but also had a flawed message. He was the best because he is a winner and is upbeat about America. However, the populist rich versus poor message didn't work with me. Most people would like to be rich.

On a side note, I know someone that worked with him and they said that he really is a good guy.

4.28.2004 11:17am
Super G:
CLT, don't underestimate the value of a good lawyer. Medical malpractice insurance costs are out of control. However, I think it safe to believe that well intentioned MDs do make mistakes at the patient's expense. Further some MDs will be less competent than others and make more mistakes. I guess if some MDs wanted to operate without insurance, then may be we should allow it, but I'd wouldn't go to an MD to have some kind of coverage.



4.28.2004 11:59am
Super G:
read that "go to an MD without some kind of coverage."
4.28.2004 12:00pm
ctl (mail) (www):
Super G,

Of course some doctors make mistakes at patient's expense. That's one of the reasons for a tort system and for malpractice insurance.

The problem is with (probable) scumbags like Edwards who get rich off of suing doctors for cases where they can spin a sob story and convince a jury that the patient deserves money, not necessarily from the doctor, but from someone, and the doctor is rich.


Here, let me point you to someone who hates John Edwards because of this.
4.28.2004 3:40pm
ctl (mail) (www):
Bill,

Yes, but since Howard Dean is out, a vote for him is a vote not only for George Bush, but for whatever republican will run next time as the democrats push ever father to the lunatic left.

The way that I figure it, once they go far enough over that cliff, they'll have to redefine themselves to get at least 40% of the popular vote and will at least largely return to sanity.

But maybe we just need to wait for the current generation to die off. As many people have noted, the wacky left is carrying a surprising amount of grey hair.
4.28.2004 3:42pm
Bill:
So you're saying, with Lenin, "the worse, the better."

Hmm ... maybe what they need is a generation in the wilderness.

By the time the Baby Boomers die off, I'll be too old for it to matter to me. And some of these young 'uns are more frightening than the Baby Boomers ... some are essentially primitives, barely able to read, write, speak, covered with tattoos and punctured with piercings, and living superstitious and emasculated lives without at least the tribal initiations and taboos to restrain their behavior. One day our nukes will be passed to them :)

Just in case you wanted to sleep tonight.


4.28.2004 4:27pm
Super G:
CLT: Sticks and stones. Is there more to the site than some guy full of hate. There is enough hatemongering in the Middle East for me.

Tort reform is overdue. Of course, I have kind of a big government solution so you might not like it.



4.28.2004 6:06pm
ctl (mail) (www):
Super G,

There's plenty more. He happens to be a doctor, all of whom suffer as a result of immoral trial lawyers. The reason that we can't throw the tort system out, of course, is the moral tort lawyers (that's oversimplifying for parallelism of structure in the statement, but I trust that my meaning is clear enough).

I'm curious, what's your big government solution? I am very curious to hear the big government solution to awarding compensation to the victims of medical malpractice while minimizing the abuse of the system.
4.28.2004 6:46pm
ctl (mail) (www):
Bill,

No, no sleep problems for me. They'll be far too drug-addled to know what nukes are by the time that it comes their turn.
4.28.2004 6:48pm

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