Canadians have good lawsuit idea

Canada has a nationalized health care system that is fairly successful. The big advantage they have over the one that President Obama is pushing for is that they have control over egregious class action lawsuits.

In Canada, the lawyers in class action suits gets paid by the plaintiff for their efforts, win or lose. The plaintiffs get the entire monetary reward and the loser pays court costs.

This eliminates the spurious extremely costly class action suits that bankrupt companies, pay peanuts to the plaintiffs and make billionaires out of the lawyers.

If doctors are freed from the $200,000 yearly insurance costs to protect them from lawsuits, they can drop their fees and avoid protective procedures to the benefit of all insurers.

DAVID P. BOSSLER

Foothills