http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040907_667.html

Bush Blames 'Junk Lawsuits' for Weak Job Market; Kerry Proposes Ending
Breaks for Outsourcing

The Associated Press

Sept. 7, 2004 - President Bush and rival John Kerry on Tuesday offered
different ways to boost the sluggish job market, the president calling
for legal reforms to help workers and businesses while his Democratic
opponent proposed ending tax breaks for companies that send jobs
overseas...

Bush said "junk lawsuits" hinder job creation and cost the economy
more than $230 billion a year.

"joes" <z7raz@na.net> wrote in message
news:5mqrj09vd5s0b2d84lc38m1gd1a6tkasm9@4ax.com... http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040907_667.html Bush Blames 'Junk Lawsuits' for Weak Job Market; Kerry Proposes Ending Breaks for Outsourcing The Associated Press Sept. 7, 2004 - President Bush and rival John Kerry on Tuesday offered different ways to boost the sluggish job market, the president calling for legal reforms to help workers and businesses while his Democratic opponent proposed ending tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas... Bush said "junk lawsuits" hinder job creation and cost the economy more than $230 billion a year.

Funny...this "junk lawsuit" 'problem' didn't stop Clinton from creating over
20 million jobs. It also didn't stop Fox News from launching one that was
laughed out of court. Oh and before Bush makes a thinly veiled attack on
John Edwards, he should read some of the cases represents, like the one
where Edwards won $ 20 million for an 8 year-old girl who had her intestines
sucked out of a public swimming pool due to negligence on the part of the
drainage manufacturer. Yah, thats a "junk lawsuit" alright.

Know what really hundered job creation and cost the economy? When the
Saudi-sponsored terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and
Pentagon on 9/11. The same Saudi's the Bush family made their millions off
of and that Bush has protected since 9/11.

Which is greater?

5.4% of 250,000,000

or 5.4% of 350,000,000

More jobs?

joes wrote:
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"KIA 1000! FREE BEER AT THE DNC" <HanoiKerry@communistsforkerry.com> wrote
in message news:chks26$c4h$3$216.221.129.222@discovernet.net. .. Which is greater? 5.4% of 250,000,000 or 5.4% of 350,000,000 More jobs?

Just curious here, genius...how do we have 350,000,000 people working in a
country with a 293,000,000 population (as of July 2004, according to the CIA
World Factbook)?

And how can you say "more jobs" when its become pretty obvious to even the
most simple of retards that when you subtract the number of jobs lost from
the workforce under Bush to the number of jobs that have been added to the
workforce under Bush, you get NEGATIVE 1.2-1.3 million. He'll be the first
President since Republican Herbert Hoover led us into the Great Depression
to finish a term with negative job growth.
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Austin American-Statesman
September 14, 2004

A question to the GOP: Is my claim 'frivolous'?
Kim Tutt, LOCAL CONTRIBUTOR

When I was 34 years old, I was diagnosed with small cell
neuroendocrine carcinoma, a fatal form of cancer. My doctors told me I
was going to die very soon. I was forced to say goodbye to my friends
and family and tell my two young boys that I was not going to be there
to watch them grow up. I drafted a will and tried to accept my fate.

My doctors told me that if I underwent a radical, 12-hour surgery, I
could possibly live six months. I believed that any amount of time I
could gain with my family was worth the pain of that surgery. My lower
right jaw was removed and replaced with the fibula from my left leg.

A short time after this disfiguring surgery, my surgeon called my
husband and me into his office. He told me there had been an error.
Apparently, the lab had contaminated my test with cancer cells from
another patient.

I did not have cancer.

I was filled with rage when I learned that all my suffering could have
been prevented. The pathologist only needed to double-check his
records - which would have revealed the remarkably unlikely occurrence
of two simultaneous cases of this rare cancer - and then run a simple
DNA test on the cells from my slides. However, rather than personally
check the records, he asked his young receptionist to perform this
critical task, and the error went undetected.

The pathologist and his insurance company took the position that the
pathologist was not at fault, so I had to file a lawsuit. When I look
back on the extreme stress of the legal fight, which happened while I
was undergoing more than 10 surgeries to reconstruct my face and jaw,
the settlement I received seems insignificant. (Under the terms of the
settlement, I am not allowed to disclose the amount.)

I believe that the insurance companies and the lawyers who represent
them will do anything possible to make the lives of the malpractice
victims miserable during the litigation process. Withdrawing my
lawsuit would have been much easier than fighting the insurance
company and the pathologist. However, I am very glad that my family
and I chose to continue the fight, regardless of the misery.

I do not think anyone would disagree that doctors should be held
accountable for the mistakes they make, just like the rest of us are.
Research indicates that the percentage of doctors who commit
malpractice is surprisingly low. If doctors are so concerned that
rising malpractice premiums are driving up the cost of health care,
why don't they clean up their profession and the one that insures
them? I do not feel that it is fair for all doctors to pay increased
malpractice insurance premiums because of the errors of just a few
doctors. Something is wrong here.

In 2003, the Legislature, led by Republicans, took the wrong approach
to the problem by passing Proposition 12. That constitutional
amendment, later ratified by voters, puts a $250,000 cap on damages in
malpractice cases for anything other than direct financial losses.
That means my damages would have been limited to $250,000. Why?
Because I am a full-time mother and housewife and therefore do not
make a direct "financial contribution" to my family. My lasting
physical pain, as well as the emotional scars that I confront every
day, apparently mean nothing to our legislators and their friends in
the insurance industry.

I am a conservative Republican who voted for George W. Bush both for
governor and president of this great nation. Medical malpractice
happens to everyone, not just Democrats. It is time for consumers and
doctors to take a stand and fight for what is actually right for all
of us.

"Frivolous lawsuits" and "tort reform" are words that are thrown
around daily in the political arena. Any doctor, lawyer or politician
that wants to look at me and say that I filed a "frivolous lawsuit" is
more than welcome to call me so we can discuss it. Texans have been,
and continue to be, misled on what "frivolous lawsuits" and "tort
reform" really mean.

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Tutt, a resident of Tyler, has testified before Congress on the
medical malpractice issue.