I think tort reform is the big problem. As a lawyer practicing at a biotech, I don’t see the plaintiff industry giving in to it.
Uco’s point reflects the difficulty. Folks hate how our legal system impact costs, but then will point out cases in less litigious societies where it’s harder to bring “justice”.
Frankly, we can’t have it both ways. We can’t use our legal system to hold folks accountable and then complain when it spawns higher costs.
I’m willing to fall on the side of limiting verdicts and lowering costs in order to get universal healthcare in place (so yeah, call me a socialist but it’s actually quite the conservative pro-business viewpoint isn’t it? (tort reform that is)). We need the centrists to get into action….
