Work-for-Less Jamie talks about an issue nobody cares about

The Republican Right has been a rapid generator of idiotic ideas lately, and Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner and Republican gubernatorial candidate James Comer has been talking up an equally dumb idea that absolutely nobody cares about anymore: tort "reform."

Comer - who trails in most polls handily - says he would try to establish panels to screen medical malpractice suits before the suits go to trial.

That issue? The issue that 5 people used to care about for 10 minutes back in 1991? Nobody - and I mean nobody - except far-right hacks gives a shit about it anymore. At all.

What's next? The FairTax?

The more important point is that Comer is fighting a problem that doesn't even exist. There's no national or statewide pandemic of frivolous malpractice suits filed by patients. There never was. But there is a glut of frivolous suits filed by health care providers against patients. I know this, because our local newspaper used to list all the suits filed in some local counties. Most of the suits were like that.

I think we should have panels to weed out frivolous suits filed by greedy health care companies so they don't keep gunking up our courts. These panels should consist of patient advocates as well as industry representatives - and the lawsuits shouldn't go forward unless both sides agree to it.

Only in conservaworld do big corporations have more rights than people.