The litigiousness of American society being the major factor limiting freedom in our country. Not a factor, the major factor limiting freedom. Because of fear of lawsuits we can't have Euro Rally type races here. ... I LOVE those races.
The cost of frivolous lawsuits was brought up during the health care debates. Two things to make health care more affordable include ending frivolous lawsuits, and allowing people to buy health insurance across state lines (thus shopping for cheaper and better plans, and for insurance companies with a better record of paying out).
Both of those were religiously fought by the democrats.
(A third and even more important way of making health care better and more affordable (and thus wholly remove the need for public health care) would be to remove the the tax subsidy of employer health insurance. The removal of that subsidy would have the effect of health insurance being attached to the person, and not the company the person works for.)
The thing about the lawsuits thing. And end to frivolous lawsuits is mainly fought by Democrats because they are beholden to the lawyer lobby.
But there is a moral reason to favor the lawsuits. At the end of the day, lawsuits allow the most powerless amongst us some justice. Something that democracy doesn't, and something that regulation also doesn't do.
I want an end to frivolous lawsuits. I want an end to the cost that they have for all of society. I want an end to the limits that those lawsuits have on liberty. But I don't want an end of the chance that the grocery bagger has to bring the CEO to justice (albeit still a slim one).
I have been struggling for a solution to this one.
I have been all over Europe, i have spent much time there. I prefer, and I am free-er in America. Despite the lack of Euro type Rallys. (Not NY, i prefer Europe to NY, and to MA)
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