A mercenary I am not as I take no ones salt for my political beliefs or actions.

A chattering class boy, OK by me! I just love the left handed compliments, and the irony of being issued a chattering class sigil by a politician, whose main main attribute is (pardon the unpun) HOT AIR!

Titled “Haircuts And Hatchet Jobs,” the e-mail solicitation blasts “political mercenaries and the chattering class” for attacking the messenger in personal ways because they don’t like his message.

Has anyone figured out what, exactly, is the message of His Royal Highness Edwards?

The problem is that YOU guys seem to think the answer to the problems (mostly created by government action in the past 40 years) in our present system are best addressed by…

Government control!

Now, you look up the facts, because Edwards made his millions suing doctors for not performing cesearians. He claimed that natural birth caused birth defects.

Because of his actions, it became hard to find an OBGYN who would allow natural birth. Meaning thousands of unnecessary cesarians were performed, at greater cost and danger to women having children.

The frivolous case for tort law change

Tort litigation has been blamed for driving liability insurance premiums to excessive levels, reducing real wages and overall employment, undermining corporate profits, dampening productivity growth, discouraging research and development, and generally reducing the willingness of corporations and individuals to take reasonable risks (such as introducing new products) that may benefit themselves and society. There is scant evidence for any of these claims.

West ‘on verge of medical crisis’

Poorly focused treatment, inappropriate prescribing and misuse of medical technology were pushing health budgets ever higher in countries with ageing populations.

In light of double-digit growth in healthcare spending – whether in national budgets or in insurance premiums – Dr McClellan said strides in quality of care could be expected. People were living longer, but quality of care was not keeping up with sharply rising expenditure.

“Treatment is not very well focused; it is overused, underused and misused,” he told a recent meeting in Westminster of senior NHS officials, doctors and health policy planners. “We are not getting very good value – there’s a big disconnect between what people pay and what they get.”

Just to start the discussion on three wrong assertions you made.

You ARE joking – right?

2. He pretends to relate to the poor, yet lives like royalty, all the while demonizing those who are successful (like him. )

3. He made his money by demonizing doctors and nearly destroyed his state’s medical system. Now he suggests that we need a government takeover of that system to protect it from laywers like him.

But his hair is perfect.

Just once I’d like to see substantive criticisms of those who hate John Edwards, rather than focusing on hair cuts. I mean, I know he isn’t a crossdresser, who married his cousin like Rudy, or a serial flip-flopper like Mitt, or a B-actor like Thompson, or a shameless panderer like McCain, or a flat-Earther like Brownback, but there has to be something you like about the guy.

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