Ann Coulter On Doctors/Lawyers!
This is off her website this am!
IS THERE A TRIAL LAWYER IN THE HOUSE?
September 19, 2007
The only "crisis" in health care in this country is that doctors are paid too little. (Also they've come up with nothing to help that poor Dennis Kucinich.)
But the Democratic Party treats doctors like they're Klan members. They wail about how much doctors are paid and celebrate the trial lawyers who do absolutely nothing to make society better, but swoop in and steal from the most valuable members of society.
Maybe doctors could get the Democrats to like them if they started suing their patients.
It's only a matter of time before the best and brightest students forget about medical school and go to law school instead. How long can a society based on suing the productive last?
You can make 30 times as much money as doctors by becoming a trial lawyer suing doctors. You need no skills, no superior board scores, no decade of training and no sleepless residency. But you must have the morals of a drug dealer. (And the bank wire transfer number to the Democratic National Committee.)
The editors of The New York Times have been engaging in a spirited debate with their readers over whether doctors are wildly overpaid or just hugely overpaid. The results of this debate are available on TimeSelect, for just $49.95.
"Many health care economists," the Times editorialized, say the partisan wrangling over health care masks a bigger problem: "the relatively high salaries paid to American doctors."
Citing the Rand Corp., the Times noted that doctors in the U.S. "earn two to three times as much as they do in other industrialized countries." American doctors earn about $200,000 to $300,000 a year, while European doctors make $60,000 to $120,000. Why, that's barely enough for Muslim doctors in Britain to buy plastic explosives to blow up airplanes!
How much does Pinch Sulzberger make for driving The New York Times stock to an all-time low? Probably a lot more than your podiatrist.
In college, my roommate was in the chemistry lab Friday and Saturday nights while I was dancing on tables at the Chapter House. A few years later, she was working 20-hour days as a resident at Mount Sinai doing liver transplants while I was frequenting popular Upper East Side drinking establishments. She was going to Johns Hopkins for yet more medical training while I was skiing and following the Grateful Dead. Now she vacations in places like Rwanda and Darfur with Doctors Without Borders while I'm going to Paris.
(Has anyone else noticed the nonexistence of a charitable organization known as "Lawyers Without Borders"?)
She makes $380 for an emergency appendectomy, or one-ten-thousandth of what John Edwards made suing doctors like her, and one-fourth of what John Edwards' hairdresser makes for a single shag cut.
Edwards made $30 million bringing nonsense lawsuits based on junk science against doctors. To defend themselves from parasites like Edwards, doctors now pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical malpractice insurance every year.
But as the Times would note, doctors in Burkina Faso only get $25 and one goat per year.
As long as we're studying the health care systems of various socialist countries, are we allowed to notice that doctors in these other countries aren't constantly being sued by bottom-feeding trial lawyers stealing one-third of the income of people performing useful work like saving lives?
But the Democrats (and Fred Thompson) refuse to enact tort reform legislation to rein in these charlatans. After teachers and welfare recipients, the Democrats' most prized constituency is trial lawyers. The ultimate Democrat constituent would be a public schoolteacher on welfare who needed an abortion and was suing her doctor.
Doctors graduate at the top of their classes at college and then spend nearly a decade in grueling work at medical schools. Most doctors don't make a dime until they're in their early 30s, just in time to start paying off their six-figure student loans by saving people's lives. They have 10 times the IQ of trial lawyers and 1,000 times the character.
Yeah, let's go after those guys. On to nuns next!
But Times' readers responded to the editorial about doctors being overpaid with a slew of indignant letters -- not at the Times for making such an idiotic argument, but at doctors who earn an average of $200,000 per year. Letter writers praised the free medical care in places like Spain. ("Nightmare" in the Ann Coulter dictionary is defined as "having a medical emergency in Spain.")
One letter-writer proposed helping doctors by having the government take over another aspect of the economy -- the cost of medical education:
"If we are to restructure the system by which we pay doctors to match Europe, which seems prudent as well as inevitable, we must also finance education as Europeans do, by using state dollars to finance the full or majority cost of higher education, including professional school."
And then to reduce the cost of medical school, the government could finance "the full or majority cost" of construction costs of medical schools, and "the full or majority cost" of the trucks that bring the cement to the construction site and the "the full or majority cost" of coffee that the truck drivers drink while hauling the cement and ... it makes my head hurt.
I may have to see a doctor about this. I should probably get on the waiting list now in case Hillary gets elected.
That's how liberals think: To fix an industry bedeviled by government controls, we'll spread the coercion to yet more industries!
The only sane letter on the matter, I'm happy to report, came from the charming town of New Canaan, Conn., which means that I am not the only normal person who still reads the Times. Ray Groves wrote:
"Last week, I had the annual checkup for my 2000 Taurus. I paid $95 per hour for much needed body work. Next month, when I have my own annual physical, I expect and hope to pay a much higher rate to my primary care internist, who has spent a significant portion of his life training to achieve his position of responsibility."
There is nothing more to say.
IS THERE A TRIAL LAWYER IN THE HOUSE?
September 19, 2007
The only "crisis" in health care in this country is that doctors are paid too little. (Also they've come up with nothing to help that poor Dennis Kucinich.)
But the Democratic Party treats doctors like they're Klan members. They wail about how much doctors are paid and celebrate the trial lawyers who do absolutely nothing to make society better, but swoop in and steal from the most valuable members of society.
Maybe doctors could get the Democrats to like them if they started suing their patients.
It's only a matter of time before the best and brightest students forget about medical school and go to law school instead. How long can a society based on suing the productive last?
You can make 30 times as much money as doctors by becoming a trial lawyer suing doctors. You need no skills, no superior board scores, no decade of training and no sleepless residency. But you must have the morals of a drug dealer. (And the bank wire transfer number to the Democratic National Committee.)
The editors of The New York Times have been engaging in a spirited debate with their readers over whether doctors are wildly overpaid or just hugely overpaid. The results of this debate are available on TimeSelect, for just $49.95.
"Many health care economists," the Times editorialized, say the partisan wrangling over health care masks a bigger problem: "the relatively high salaries paid to American doctors."
Citing the Rand Corp., the Times noted that doctors in the U.S. "earn two to three times as much as they do in other industrialized countries." American doctors earn about $200,000 to $300,000 a year, while European doctors make $60,000 to $120,000. Why, that's barely enough for Muslim doctors in Britain to buy plastic explosives to blow up airplanes!
How much does Pinch Sulzberger make for driving The New York Times stock to an all-time low? Probably a lot more than your podiatrist.
In college, my roommate was in the chemistry lab Friday and Saturday nights while I was dancing on tables at the Chapter House. A few years later, she was working 20-hour days as a resident at Mount Sinai doing liver transplants while I was frequenting popular Upper East Side drinking establishments. She was going to Johns Hopkins for yet more medical training while I was skiing and following the Grateful Dead. Now she vacations in places like Rwanda and Darfur with Doctors Without Borders while I'm going to Paris.
(Has anyone else noticed the nonexistence of a charitable organization known as "Lawyers Without Borders"?)
She makes $380 for an emergency appendectomy, or one-ten-thousandth of what John Edwards made suing doctors like her, and one-fourth of what John Edwards' hairdresser makes for a single shag cut.
Edwards made $30 million bringing nonsense lawsuits based on junk science against doctors. To defend themselves from parasites like Edwards, doctors now pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical malpractice insurance every year.
But as the Times would note, doctors in Burkina Faso only get $25 and one goat per year.
As long as we're studying the health care systems of various socialist countries, are we allowed to notice that doctors in these other countries aren't constantly being sued by bottom-feeding trial lawyers stealing one-third of the income of people performing useful work like saving lives?
But the Democrats (and Fred Thompson) refuse to enact tort reform legislation to rein in these charlatans. After teachers and welfare recipients, the Democrats' most prized constituency is trial lawyers. The ultimate Democrat constituent would be a public schoolteacher on welfare who needed an abortion and was suing her doctor.
Doctors graduate at the top of their classes at college and then spend nearly a decade in grueling work at medical schools. Most doctors don't make a dime until they're in their early 30s, just in time to start paying off their six-figure student loans by saving people's lives. They have 10 times the IQ of trial lawyers and 1,000 times the character.
Yeah, let's go after those guys. On to nuns next!
But Times' readers responded to the editorial about doctors being overpaid with a slew of indignant letters -- not at the Times for making such an idiotic argument, but at doctors who earn an average of $200,000 per year. Letter writers praised the free medical care in places like Spain. ("Nightmare" in the Ann Coulter dictionary is defined as "having a medical emergency in Spain.")
One letter-writer proposed helping doctors by having the government take over another aspect of the economy -- the cost of medical education:
"If we are to restructure the system by which we pay doctors to match Europe, which seems prudent as well as inevitable, we must also finance education as Europeans do, by using state dollars to finance the full or majority cost of higher education, including professional school."
And then to reduce the cost of medical school, the government could finance "the full or majority cost" of construction costs of medical schools, and "the full or majority cost" of the trucks that bring the cement to the construction site and the "the full or majority cost" of coffee that the truck drivers drink while hauling the cement and ... it makes my head hurt.
I may have to see a doctor about this. I should probably get on the waiting list now in case Hillary gets elected.
That's how liberals think: To fix an industry bedeviled by government controls, we'll spread the coercion to yet more industries!
The only sane letter on the matter, I'm happy to report, came from the charming town of New Canaan, Conn., which means that I am not the only normal person who still reads the Times. Ray Groves wrote:
"Last week, I had the annual checkup for my 2000 Taurus. I paid $95 per hour for much needed body work. Next month, when I have my own annual physical, I expect and hope to pay a much higher rate to my primary care internist, who has spent a significant portion of his life training to achieve his position of responsibility."
There is nothing more to say.
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YEAH, BABY!!!
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i agree with coulter. however, corrupt doctors are a problem as well. they are on collusion with lawyers to scam insurance companies on workmans comp claims and auto accidents. 0 -
Does this apply to the doctors who performed her sex change? 0 -
I love that woman.[:I] 0 -
Anybody paying attention to Man Coulter is hard up for something to do. 0 -
If you didn't think she was a moron before... 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Jgreen
If you didn't think she was a moron before...
here comes the attorney to defend his parasitic methods of employment
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Let me see. A guy gets 10 million dollars a year for hitting a ball or running with a ball or throwing a ball.......but somebody who saves lifes, (It could be yours)works long hours, etc. is making too much money with 200,000 a year? 0 -
quote:There is nothing more to say.
Good. Maybe that anorexic slag will shut her trap for good then.
Although given her habit of saying one thing and doing another (like most good conservatives), I'm willing to bet she'll corrupt the world with her thoughts yet again...0 -
Come on guys, grow up. Just admit the real reason you don't like her is bacause she bashes queers.....[8D][:0][;)] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Aspen79se
Does this apply to the doctors who performed her sex change?
Looks like that doctor did a darn fine job and deserves a raise.[8D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by Horney toad
Anybody paying attention to Man Coulter is hard up for something to do.
...and anyone paying attention to the people that pay attention to Ann is really hard up for something to do.[:D]0 -
Ever notice that, in response to items such as this one, the messenger, not the message, is what draws most of the attacks? The right says, "Right on! She's absolutely correct and perfect in every respect!" And the left says, "Total BS! She's wrong and deserves to be imprisoned if not stoned!" With lightning rods such as Ann Coulter, Hillary Clinton and their kind, it doesn't matter what they actually say. The decision to praise or damn is made the moment the name is mentioned. Personalities trump positions every time.[:(][:(][:(] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by ripley16
I love that woman.[:I]
+10 My wife's OBGYN had to reduce her practice to just herself and has her husband doing all the paperwork because her malpractice insurance doubled to $140k/year. She has never been in a lawsuit either!0 -
Interesting point Ross. The way I see it, however, the post isn't about the position or idea per se, it is about the personality. Coultier and her ilk are all about personality. She's known for being "outrageous", and without that, what is she? She's not right, that's for sure.
I'll put it to you like this: The first line in her piece is that "doctors are paid too little". Anyone ever hear that before? Anyone ever hear that in connection with the idea that there is a "crisis" in health care? Of Course not. It's all shock value.
Becuase it isn't about the content or idea, but rather, the personality as defined by shock masquerading as thought, she deserves all the crap she gets.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Jgreen
Interesting point Ross. The way I see it, however, the post isn't about the position or idea per se, it is about the personality. Coultier and her ilk are all about personality. She's known for being "outrageous", and without that, what is she? She's not right, that's for sure.
I'll put it to you like this: The first line in her piece is that "doctors are paid too little". Anyone ever hear that before? Anyone ever hear that in connection with the idea that there is a "crisis" in health care? Of Course not. It's all shock value.
Becuase it isn't about the content or idea, but rather, the personality as defined by shock masquerading as thought, she deserves all the crap she gets.
hmmm.. I think if you read anything about Dr's in this country you will see that they are predicting a DIRE shortage of Dr's after the baby-boomers retire. Why? 10 years of schooling to make less than $200k/year. You think $200k is a lot? It is not. That is smack dab in the middle of the middle class.0 -
There have been predicitons of shortages of doctors for years. Chicken Little has squawked too much. And if you think that $200k a year puts you in the middle class, what do you think somone who makes $80k a year is? 0 -
heh heh heh.[:0][:D]
She is a lawyer...............
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