in in light the light of what has been happening lately with the doctors that i know and lawyers and whatnot
i think national health insurance is a way to throw a lot of money at a very small problem
do you why
why well if you took half the money that they would spend in the state of Texas for health insurance and gave it to qualified students to so they could become doctors the problem would go away
you think the problem is not enough doctors
i think the problem is that the doctor doctors have conspired to limit the number of doctors
and that the lawyers have conspired to make sure that if you are a doctor you are going to pay high premiums on your health uh unemployment i mean on your liability
gosh i really have a different point of view on this well because i'm a nurse for one thing
oh
uh-huh
and you think there are plenty of doctors
oh yeah i don't think there is a shortage of doctors and i do know that OB which is my field the doctors' health insurance the doctors' malpractice insurance is over two hundred thousand dollars a year
uh-huh
it's astronomical
that deliver babies now they can't doing anything about that i don't think they're in a conspiracy i think it's our fault because we as people just sue them
no people don't sue
people are very sue sue conscious
lawyers sue if you put a ten thousand dollar cap on the amount of money that a lawyer could make from a law suit against a doctor
yeah
they wouldn't sue a one of them
well that's probably true too
you know
but people are very conscious of how much money they can get real fast these days
well sure but you know when you think about reasonableness now i believe that a law suit should have some foundation in the the tort theory you know what tort theory is
and so
no
well a tort is when you do something wrong
right
well it uh an OBGYN doctor cannot control the fetus in the womb a hundred percent
that's right
if the baby is born dead well that happens if if they have complications and
well
it depends
well i know i mean there are guys that are real slobs but you know there are also people out there that are really doing their job
and the people that are really doing their job are paying for everybody else
well that's true they are because doctors are performing many more tests many of them are unnecessary they are doing so many C sections
you know
just to prevent a a law suit
just to prevent because they have all these monitors now and if anything looks even a little bit funny
yeah
their only safety precaution is to go in and get that baby and so it's costing more all around in health insurance for tests for surgery for longer hospital stay so it's terrible
yeah
uh-huh
see i believe that there there is a system already in place
for health care
uh-huh
you know they have indigent health care you show up at Parkland bleeding and they'll fix you
you'll get it that's true
you know
in fact you'll get it at Presbyterian if you show up there too and we have that happen we have patients that go through Parkland through the clinic and at the last minute they come to us well
yeah
uh-huh
uh-huh
uh we can't turn them away
so
yeah i think that if you just wrote the lawyers out of the equation
the problem would pretty much evaporate
yeah
i'm for that i've been through a two year divorce where the only one that came out ahead was my lawyer so i'd like to wipe them all out
yeah
well i i happen to know a few and i even claim one as a friend
he's a divorce attorney
he better not be mine
but
i think he'll go nameless for the for the purposes of this conversation but i also know an uh OBGYN who has stopped practicing
yeah some they do
uh he just said
they stop their OB at least
yeah i mean he's not going to deliver any more babies ever his malpractice was five hundred thousand dollars a year
right right
that's incredible
and you know he said i had to he had to earn gross two million to take home as much as his malpractice
yeah and most of them are very sincere most of them do the best they can they are human occasionally
uh
yeah
this this guy is Catholic
something will go wrong
yeah i mean you know
well you can be human and Catholic
yeah i know you can be human and Catholic but you're not likely to find somebody who is going to you know have a less conscientious effort i mean
yeah no most of them do i really believe that from dealing with doctors dealing with lawyers there is no doubt in my mind who is more conscientious
but
well you know who is getting rich
insurance companies
yeah they are
you know if you were able to write a malpractice insurance that would
negate any financial obligation on the part of the doctor over and above the insurance
say say you have malpractice insurance and a kid dies or is malformed or
