Keep these numbers in mind: 3,000 and 360,000

[The Whiskey Priest]

Approximately 3,000 American died from a terrorist attack on 9-11-2001. In the ensuing years approximately 360,000 have died from errors committed by hospitals.

We have spent untold billions of public dollars and passed untold number of laws, sometimes even giving away civil rights, as a result of the terrorist attack. Hell we even started a war.

You might ask, just what laws has Congress and the President offered, or passed, how many dollars have they spent in face of losing 360,000 Americans to mismanagement and errors in health care?

The answer would be not one dollar, not one law, nothing.

[whistle]

1. That is not correct, there have been numerous laws passed....

...limiting the medical malpractice liabilities that doctors and hospitals face in victim law suits. See, it's all just a matter of perspective. :shrug: :hide:

http://www.expertlaw.com/library/malpractice_by_state/Florida.html

[The Whiskey Priest]

3. Hmmmm....Of course you are correct

I was thinking more in terms of something to help the people....that was an error in my thinking....of course the people are not going to be helped...they are just going to continue to die needlessly....while the politicians continue to relief the killers from responsibility...

Responsibility is for those without power.....so says T. DeLay.

[whistle]

4. Republicans help people? Surely you jest.....

...they help by lowering taxes. You get to keep more legally of what in the past you used various tax dodge schemes to avoid paying your share of the tax burden. Then help big business by cutting out taxes and limiting their liabilities for producing faulty products and negligent services. That is the republican agenda in a nut shell, IMHO.

The democrats who we elected to the House and Senate, seem to either be totally powerless, or spineless to battle these trends. Maybe democrats are into the LIHOP/MIHOP versions of republican legislation.

[peacetalksforall]

2. There might be another number you can dig up. This past week, the

admin said they are not going to fulfill their 9-11 monetary promises to New York for the intended purposes.

There is little difference between inaction as in your number related to the dead from errors in hospitals and withheld money to NY. It is a big lie administration.

They want us dead or silenced. No difference.

[moof]

5. Interesting number 3000 and your use of it.

If memory serves 3000 is the approximate number of people killed every month on the nations roads by transportation that could be made almost completely safe but it's cheaper to kill them for the people that run things, yet no one is looking to put any of the top car manufacturing execs in Gitmo.

So 3000 people were killed on Sept. 11.

Not sure who killed them but that same Sept. and every single month since then another 3000 have been needlessly killed, ... well not needlessly for the ones that got the extra cash from the unsafe cars they are allowed to manufacture.