re: Excessive litigation costs the Louisiana economy $5.17B per year

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I'm not even really defending the system as much as trying to have people identify the specific issues. We can't even have a discussion without this. You'll get ignorant responses like "loser pays" from people who clearly don't understand the conversation they've just joined.

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Scruffy isn’t a lawyer, but he considers the issue to be somewhat on par with the current issues with medical costs.

Bear with me on this analogy.

A decent factor, IMO, with medical costs is the relative over reliance on the use of insurance to pay for EVERYTHING rather than paying out of pocket. This results is over inflated charges to account for the “percentages” that insurance companies will pay, so that hospitals can squeeze out as much as they can.

The use of insurance has become essentially ingrained the social system to where there is no medical spending without it, even for small things like prescriptions.

As simple as the may sound, you want these costs to go down? Convince people to stop litigating for everything.

Litigation and lawsuits are so insanely common nowadays. It’s ingrained into every aspect of our society.

Can you come up with an idea on how to convince people to stop filing so many lawsuits?

Litigation is as much an American cultural norm as apple pie and obesity.

ETA: There is a thread on the first page with someone asking if he needs an ambulance chaser because an urgent care wouldn’t see him.