President Bush has been out about the country stumping for “medical liability reform.” The rationale behind this being that juries can’t be trusted to award reasonable verdicts for damages and thus the federal government must step in with arbitrary caps.
Yesterday on C-SPAN I saw Elizabeth Edwards make an excellent point regarding this. She pointed out that as governor of Texas, Bush never questioned the judgment of juries when they sentenced people to be executed. Although a number of governors have recently grappled with the known imperfections in our criminal justice system, Bush had no qualms whatsoever with Texas’ assembly-line style execution process.
So when it comes to a trivial matter like life or death, George W. Bush has no problem with the wisdom of our jury system. But when corporate or insurance company profits are on the line, juries clearly can’t be trusted to get things right.
Priorities, priorities.
Oh come on, Brian. You’re a lawyer. You know that corporate profits aren’t a matter of life and death; they’re much more important than that.
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Besides that, Bush supports killing teenage retarted children, but is firmly against anyone being compensated when a drunk doctor maims a patient for life (or even kills them). Giving money to people who deserve it is anathema to Bush, giving more money to his wealthiest buddies is the only direction money should be flowing.
Oh and did I mention that Bush likes killing repentant women and retarted teenagers, even going so far as to mock them??