Do people 'deserve' universal health care?

[steelish]

Don't forget the fact that doctors feel the need, because of those frivolous lawsuits, to run every test they can think of for someone who complains of unlocalized stomach pains, for example, just to cover themselves for when the patient sues them for not supplying them with morphine.

I realize that...can you blame them? We've allowed too many unjustified lawsuits, with completely ridiculous reasoning. And not just medical.

How about the woman who sued McDonalds because she spilled hot coffee in her lap. Her claim that there should have been a written warning on the cup, or that the window attendant should have verbally warned her is ludicrous. Yet she won the case. How about the woman who sued Reynolds Tobacco Company over her husband dying of lung cancer? Excuse me???? There are warnings printed right on the side of the carton! Stupidity abounds.

[Thorne]

I realize that...can you blame them? We've allowed too many unjustified lawsuits, with completely ridiculous reasoning. And not just medical.

How about the woman who sued McDonalds because she spilled hot coffee in her lap. Her claim that there should have been a written warning on the cup, or that the window attendant should have verbally warned her is ludicrous. Yet she won the case. How about the woman who sued Reynolds Tobacco Company over her husband dying of lung cancer? Excuse me???? There are warnings printed right on the side of the carton! Stupidity abounds.

No, I don't blame them at all. It's the legal system which is at fault here.

One thing, though, about the woman at McDonalds. IIRC, McD's had had many complaints about their coffee being too hot, and possibly some warnings from consumer groups. I don't remember the details, but the case wasn't as simple as it sounds. I still think the woman was paid for her own clumsiness and stupidity, but as they say, the devil's in the details.