Finally getting over my illness.

It's got me feeling spikey...

OK, here we go.

I call bullshit.

"I saw a vivid example of what bureaucratic medical care meant back in 1959, when I had a summer job at the headquarters of the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington. Around 5 o'clock one afternoon, a man had a heart attack on the street near our office.

He was taken to the nurse's room and asked if he was a federal employee. If he was, he could be sent to the large, modern medical facility there in the Public Health Service headquarters. But he was not a government employee, so an ambulance was summoned from a local hospital.

By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of downtown Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead. He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. That is what bureaucracy means."

Right wing talking heads LOVE these goofy anecdotal arguments, but frankly I'm pretty sick of them.

Dude, what doctor is really gonna stand there and let you die because of some bullshit paper trail?

Have you ever talked to a doctor who would let this happen? Ever?

More from the same post:

"Many of the same politicians who are gung ho for imposing price controls on prescription drugs, or for importing Canadian price controls by importing American medicines from Canada, have not the slightest interest in stopping frivolous lawsuits against doctors, hospitals, or drug companies -- which are huge costs."

Now the latest statistic I heard was that frivolous lawsuits, you know, the ones that get thrown out of court for being, you know, frivolous are actually a pretty small cost.

It's the legitimate lawsuits that end up costing the industry.

Ever here of Vioxx?

That one is gonna cost 'em.

These are the lawsuits the righties want to see have tort reform done on.