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That would have to come with some liability reform however. Injury lawyers are another cancer on society along with many practices of Private Equity. When you

That would have to come with some liability reform however. Injury lawyers are another cancer on society along with many practices of Private Equity. When you take care of sick or disabled people, bad outcomes, even death, can come along with that. Nobody in their right mind is going to form a health care partnership with unlimited personal exposure to liability unless that is strictly limited to actual losses in cases of proven negligence.

alistairSH 1y ago
About half the states already have caps on damages. [1] 1 - https://www.millerandzois.com/medical-malpractice/maryland-medical-malpractice-cap/malpractice-damage-caps/ https://www.millerandzois.com/medical-malpractice/maryland-m...
- phil21 1y ago
  Caps aren’t super interesting overall. It’s the low bar it takes to sue and how expensive it is to litigate bullshit to marginal cases vs. settlements.
infecto 1y ago
This is the hard part imo. Thinking about the argument for a government run single payer system, someone is still having to make a calculation on appropriate treatment. It’s what happens at the NHS, perhaps a single payer can do it more efficiently and no I am not defending the American system but I do think there are a lot of hard to answer questions.
- tartuffe78 1y ago
  The American government hasn’t had a good track record for solving difficult problems in my life time.
  - slg 1y ago
    This has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. When roughly half the political power in this country believes that government can only hurt, it makes it nearly impossible for the government to actually help.
  - nitwit005 1y ago
    Or, you never give them credit when they improve things. The most difficult problems aren't fully fixable. The improvements people make often go unnoticed. Crime rates have fallen. Rather than giving anyone credit, people seem more anxious and angry than ever.
    - phil21 1y ago
      Murder may be down, but every other “minor” visible crime is up. Reporting it is useless. Just this week about a dozen contractor vans in the neighborhood were broken into (windows smashed) by a professional crew caught on camera looking for valuables to steal. Zero of those contractors reported it since they know it’s a pointless waste of time with the local police department. Not even worth reporting to insurance since rates will more than make up for the claim in a short period of time and they expect it to happen a few times a year. The stats will report a perfect week of zero property crime. This is a neighborhood where the cheapest property is over seven figures. Shoplifting is effectively legalized these days. No one is enabled to stop it like we did 30 years ago when I worked a retail job. And no one wants to talk about the corrosive effect this has on society via second and third order effects. Just the liability fairy and “don’t get paid enough to deal with that”. Again, only a small percentage of such theft is ever reported these days when before it was a policy to detain and call the police for booking every single time you caught someone in the act. So sure, violent crime is down. Misdemeanors are effectively legal where I’m at. Traffic laws more or less no longer exist on top of it all. Armed carjackings went from basically unheard of to a weekly occurrence in my neighborhood. But all the stats state otherwise, other than perhaps the carjacking one. It’s also a large reason folks are losing faith with institutions and experts. When the stats and “studies” match absolutely no one’s lived experience people eventually start to question things for good reason. Only so many times you can be told by wealthy suburbanites that crime is down until you tune them out. We are rapidly moving from a high trust society to a low trust one and I think many people are being caught flat footed in the new reality. That said, I don’t believe it’s really a government problem. It’s societal one.
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alistairSH 1y ago

About half the states already have caps on damages. [1] 1 - https://www.millerandzois.com/medical-malpractice/maryland-medical-malpractice-cap/malpractice-damage-caps/ https://www.millerandzois.com/medical-malpractice/maryland-m...

phil21 1y ago
Caps aren’t super interesting overall. It’s the low bar it takes to sue and how expensive it is to litigate bullshit to marginal cases vs. settlements.

infecto 1y ago

This is the hard part imo. Thinking about the argument for a government run single payer system, someone is still having to make a calculation on appropriate treatment. It’s what happens at the NHS, perhaps a single payer can do it more efficiently and no I am not defending the American system but I do think there are a lot of hard to answer questions.

tartuffe78 1y ago
The American government hasn’t had a good track record for solving difficult problems in my life time.
- slg 1y ago
  This has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. When roughly half the political power in this country believes that government can only hurt, it makes it nearly impossible for the government to actually help.
- nitwit005 1y ago
  Or, you never give them credit when they improve things. The most difficult problems aren't fully fixable. The improvements people make often go unnoticed. Crime rates have fallen. Rather than giving anyone credit, people seem more anxious and angry than ever.
  - phil21 1y ago
    Murder may be down, but every other “minor” visible crime is up. Reporting it is useless. Just this week about a dozen contractor vans in the neighborhood were broken into (windows smashed) by a professional crew caught on camera looking for valuables to steal. Zero of those contractors reported it since they know it’s a pointless waste of time with the local police department. Not even worth reporting to insurance since rates will more than make up for the claim in a short period of time and they expect it to happen a few times a year. The stats will report a perfect week of zero property crime. This is a neighborhood where the cheapest property is over seven figures. Shoplifting is effectively legalized these days. No one is enabled to stop it like we did 30 years ago when I worked a retail job. And no one wants to talk about the corrosive effect this has on society via second and third order effects. Just the liability fairy and “don’t get paid enough to deal with that”. Again, only a small percentage of such theft is ever reported these days when before it was a policy to detain and call the police for booking every single time you caught someone in the act. So sure, violent crime is down. Misdemeanors are effectively legal where I’m at. Traffic laws more or less no longer exist on top of it all. Armed carjackings went from basically unheard of to a weekly occurrence in my neighborhood. But all the stats state otherwise, other than perhaps the carjacking one. It’s also a large reason folks are losing faith with institutions and experts. When the stats and “studies” match absolutely no one’s lived experience people eventually start to question things for good reason. Only so many times you can be told by wealthy suburbanites that crime is down until you tune them out. We are rapidly moving from a high trust society to a low trust one and I think many people are being caught flat footed in the new reality. That said, I don’t believe it’s really a government problem. It’s societal one.

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