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Posted By: ramram

Attorneys do protect all of us but just the same, most are not doing it because they feel a moral obligation to help the down-trodden. Like most businesses, it's the profit and the risk versus reward that drives their work. Just like any business, they take advantage of the laws and try to make a profit. Unfortunately, if it's a business drawing that profit nobody typically notices. If it's an attorney lawfully making a profit it can sometimes appear distasteful. None-the-less, that's why reform is necessary when it gets too disagreeable.

As an example, when I see all of our surgeons being driven out of state because of medical malpractice insurance, I think we have a problem. Yes, I believe in part that the problem has been exacerbated by attorneys seeking those profits. They are also aided by a grieving family that is not always thinking clearly and a jury pool that is often emotional or incompetent (i.e. Simpson jury). No, I would not like to see my son harmed by an incompetent doctor but I would take my chance at that minimal occurrence over not having that specialist available to the emergency room because he has now packed up and moved to another state.

The world operates much like the pendulum of a clock. When something moves too far to the extreme, forces pull it back until it oftentimes moves to the other extreme, until pulled back again. We don't need the chamber of commerce and insurance industry to tell us when it's time to bring it back in line. Likewise, when we see the other damaging extreme, we'll know it's time to pull the other way as well.