Ruling May Have Device Lawsuits Cooling

In the U. S. the epidemic of lawsuits has absolutely paralyzed the medical proffession. You cannot watch any of the 500 plus channels on the tube for more than 5 minutes without hearing some ambulance chaser yelling about "Have you ever used this or that or done this or that?" Then lets sue, I'll get you tons of money. The result is unaffordable health care. All medical devices, medicines, procedures, etc. have to charge enough to cover extravagent court judgements.

This might just be the first step toward correcting this unsustainable problem.

I vote "Yaaaay!

Here's a better idea - give the FDA (as well as other regulatory agencies including the USDA, EPA, DOT, etc.) sufficient funding to be able to actually test these (and other) devices to ensure they will work as advertised. Then the product liability issue goes away in part, because we'll have things that ARE operable, not just 'promised to be' operable. As is, the FDA often as not must rely on testing by the manufacturers, and they will always tell the truth, right?