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Randy,
True enough, the dual income household was not the only factor (though the extra income amongst college graduate households + smaller families probably had *something* to do with the current US consumption pattern). I acknowledged the importance of other factors in my original statement.
However, I do think that there is a natural limiting factor to the proportion of residential housing on a national economy. Once the amount goes above a certain amount, the high representation of housing in the national economy will be dangerous on the overall political economy.
"I agree. We don’t need anyone in office who made over $20 million suing doctors. "
Oh, even doctors and businesses that have a record of reckless negligence? Even doctors who should have had their license revoked but continue with the complicity of the current insurance scheme and AMA's silence?
(eye roll)
Perhaps you prefer someone who just denies patients coverage through his family HMO company and lies to get cats for his experiments.
(Though to clarify, I don't like multimillion dollar judgments by juries gave awards because they felt sorry for the plaintiff. However, the million dollar judgments are a symptom of a much larger and very broken overall healthcare system, not the cause.)
Astrid,
It is the legal system that is broke. Criminal doctors should be jailed, and the incompetent should have the license revoked. Taking a jackpot from the hospital enriches attorneys, but leaves that much less money for staff and equipment.
Being against millionare doctor suing lawyers does not mean one is for HMO abuse or for the dishonest. That is like saying that anyone who is for gov involvement in the economy is pro-Stalin and for gulags.
Headset,
I don't think much of the jury system either, but I do think the primary blame for the healthcare system lies with insurance companies/HMO/government. Trial lawyers (as opposed to insurance law lawyers) are just mosquitoes in this morass.
"Being against millionare doctor suing lawyers does not mean one is for HMO abuse or for the dishonest. "
Headset. When there's no better alternative to millionaire doctor suing lawyers keep the healthcare system in check, being against the said lawyer is implicitly assenting to HMO/insurance company abuse.
The cat killer statement was just gratuitous abuse on Frist.
FWIW, seems there is an easy cure for what ails to our legal system - mandatory awarding of attorneys fees to the winning party.
I'm also a fan of randomizing jury selection (if only for the streamlining benefits), inmates working for food and shelter, euthanasia and retroactive abortion.
But then I guess that's why engineers generally aren't elected to office.
thanks spike66,
I have some of the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (VBMFX), which is 35.1% Government Mortgage-Backed. I'm gonna poke around and see if there is a good alternative...
Okay, so I got the governing authority wrong. But that doesn't mean my point: NOT that lawyers are blameless, merely that they don't bear the majority of the blame for US's broken healthcare system. Suggest an alternative to medical malpractice suits for kids with cerebal palsy. It's not the lawyers who award the damages, it's the juries. Demonizing lawyers (many, maybe even majority of whom are rather decent people, belief it or not) doesn't explain how the healthcare system went wrong. Demonizing a man who was skilled at winning for crippled kids and botched surgery victims (that is the other side to your wronged doctors) is not something I'm going ever agree with. There absolutely no indication that John Edwards ever behaved unethically or unprofessionally, or ever even came close.
spike66,
Thanks. Do the same if you ever find yourself in Shanghai (or anywhere in China) or DC.
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Ok, it's official. We can finally put to bed one of the perma-bull/Trolls' favorite myths: rents are not about to shoot up and correct the price-to-rent imbalance all by itself. And, oh, we're not all going to work for Google and become Googleaires. Or marry supermodels... or live forever. Sorry to burst anyone's bubble. ;-)
HARM
Sacramento Bee
By Jim Wasserman - Bee Staff Writer
January 19, 2007
Story appeared in BUSINESS section, Page D3
An oversupply of units has held down prices locally.
ABC7.com
LOS ANGLEES, January 18, 2007
Landlords Lowering Apartment Rates, Offering Incentives
New York Times
January 16, 2007
Buyers Scarce, Many Condos Are for Rent
National Real Estate Investor
Jan 1, 2007
Mr. Fix It
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