tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321422627188917599.post2613774094073313747..comments2023-12-21T03:53:20.907-08:00Comments on The Liberator Today: Liberty Movement California Ballot RecommendationsB-Daddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13880092017105841256noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321422627188917599.post-84465710475888893712014-11-03T06:34:01.351-08:002014-11-03T06:34:01.351-08:00Best of all, there's no one else on the ballot...Best of all, <a href="http://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2014/11/scott-peters-is-worst-or-maybe-worst-is.html" rel="nofollow">there's no one else on the ballot</a>.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321422627188917599.post-10429683608694582732014-11-02T17:17:38.441-08:002014-11-02T17:17:38.441-08:00Yeah, Carl's campaign has really taken a nose ...Yeah, Carl's campaign has really taken a nose dive in terms of message. He was my hero when he helped defeat the 1/2 cent sales tax and got the pension reform measure passed, but now he sounds like any other pol, with horrible commercials to boot. Peters' are even worse, IMHO and he had a bad track record on the city council. Interestingly, I have met both candidates in person, and they both seem like decent human beings and pretty bright to boot. Still voting for DeMaio.B-Daddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13880092017105841256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321422627188917599.post-46306722605409501722014-11-02T16:02:10.064-08:002014-11-02T16:02:10.064-08:00I wish there was someone other than DeMaio and Pet...I wish there was someone other than DeMaio and Peters to vote for in the congressional race. I hate them both.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321422627188917599.post-50952638156809397572014-11-02T11:20:38.593-08:002014-11-02T11:20:38.593-08:00Anonymous,
Your prescription for these ills is eve...Anonymous,<br />Your prescription for these ills is even more bureaucracy, the root cause of our medical problems in the first place. As a chronic sufferer of neck pain, I am not interested in being denied the occasional relief I need from prescription drugs. I know better than any bureaucrat how to manage my pain.B-Daddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13880092017105841256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321422627188917599.post-57972722966932258902014-11-02T09:47:13.849-08:002014-11-02T09:47:13.849-08:00Please reconsider your position on Prop 46 and 45 ...Please reconsider your position on Prop 46 and 45 both of which are in the public's interest.<br /><br />Hundreds of thousands of Americans die yearly as the result of preventable medical negligence. Common hospital malpractice errors include: incorrect medication/dosage, surgical mistakes, preventable infections, diagnosis failures, birth delivery mistakes, anesthesia errors and under/over treatment. Americans are prescribed twice the drugs as Europeans and we are not any healthier or live any longer for it - Vioxx caused 60K deaths. <br /><br />Prop 46 is not about trial lawyers vs doctors; it's about patient and public safety at the expense of a modest reduction in profits to malpractice insurance companies that make billions. And P46 is about public justice which is currently being denied to you.<br /><br />In 1975 malpractice insurance companies backed the California MICRA law which capped the non-economic "pain and suffering" award to 250K with no adjustment for inflation and this unjust law has now reduced the value of your jobless family members(children, retirees, ect) to essentially zero as you can not obtain a lawyer in any wrongful death malpractice case for them. Except in a very rare punitive award this is the only award available.<br /><br />Malpractice attorneys will not take these wrongful death cases because the MICRA law also limits the attorney award to about 30%(BPC 6146) or about $75K of any maximum $250K award and attorney and medical expert costs in a case will quickly exceed $75K, search on "caps harm California" and "protectconsumerjustice org how micra came to be". <br /><br />Governor Brown who signed MICRA into law said 17 years later that MICRA did not lower health care costs and only enriched insurers and placed negligent or incompetent physicians outside the reach of judicial accountability. Ralph Nader has reminded Governor Brown's of this earlier statement and has asked him to support Prop 46. Erin Brockovich and patient safety organizations support P46.<br /><br />The MICRA cap and low non-economic damage caps in many other states have enabled malpractice insurance companies to earn billions in profits by essentially eliminating their monetary liability in these cases. It's no wonder malpractice insurance companies have spent tens of millions to defeat Prop 46 which doesn't even eliminate the cap, only adjusts it for inflation.<br /><br />California malpractice insurance companies profit an incredible 70 cents for every dollar collected in malpractice premiums which leaves plenty of room for an increase in malpractice payouts without a rate increase to doctors. <br /><br />P46 will not cause healthcare costs to skyrocket. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office calculates the increased cost at less than 0.5%. 22 other states do not have a non-economic damage cap and medical insurance rates are not any higher in those states nor are there shortages of physicians. <br /><br />Since 1988 Prop 103 has regulated doctors malpractice insurance premiums and can not be increased unless justified with the Insurance Commissioner. <br /><br />Prop 46 also includes testing doctors for drug and alcohol which is done in the transportation industry, the military and in other public safety related occupations. Certainly it is in the public's interest for doctors to be thinking clearly when they have our lives in their hands.<br /><br />Over prescribing of prescription narcotics is now a national epidemic. The Centers for Disease Control cited 475,000 emergency room visits and 36,000 deaths from prescription narcotic overdoses in a recent year, at a price tag of $72 billion in avoidable health care expenditures. <br /><br />Prop 46 will also require physicians to check the state's existing and secure DOJ CURES prescription drug database before prescribing narcotics and other addictive drugs to curb doctor-shopping drug abusers, to prevent over-dose deaths and to reduce harmful behavior and health care costs.<br /><br />PLEASE VOTE YES ON PROPOSITION 46 for Public Safety and Patient Justice.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com