Comments on: Healthcare Update — 08-20-2012

By: MamaOnABudget

MamaOnABudget — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:10:27 +0000

I’m not defending what he said at all, but he has stated that he meant to say “forcible rape” – which is a term that has been used by GOP candidates/politicians in the past and is meant to distinguish between rape from an unknown hostile perpetrator and statutory rape, which is often a couple having consensual sexual relations where one is under the legal age of consent in a given jurisdiction.

By: throckmorton

throckmorton — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:16:13 +0000

The thing about Pradaxa that I have seen is this. Most of the patients on Coumadin are subtherapeutic and therefore throw more clots, but still tend to have bad bleeding complications. The patients on Pradaxa are therapeutic and throw fewer clots but have more bleeding complications because they are therapeutic.

By: Nurse K

Nurse K — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:20:28 +0000

The mechanism that stops rape victims from becoming pregnant is reporting the rape promptly to the authorities and taking the Plan B pill (given by your friendly local sexual assault nurse examiner) after being raped.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:42:05 +0000

Check that – it’s not a class action. It’s multi-district litigation, which is a different animal, but still designed to streamline similar claims. And still has the expenses and resources that would easily require 70 employees. And that one law firm is one of the leaders in mass tort litigation, used to combating extremely well funded defendants with their own scores of lawyers and staff, not to mention their insurers and their marketing departments.

By: CholeraJoe

CholeraJoe — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:47:39 +0000

Haven’t y’all heard that a woman can’t get pregnant unless she has an orgasm? I saw it on the internet. BBRRRApppp!

By: DataGirl

DataGirl — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:26:22 +0000

I guess that pregnancy can now be taken as evidence in court of law that a rape was not legit and therefore the case would be thrown out…

What an idiot.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:18:11 +0000

“One law firm has 70 employees dedicated to Pradaxa litigation alone and the attorney can’t even remember the name of the client the reporter called to ask him about.”

Is this surprising? Class actions contain thousands of people by their nature. They’re designed to resolve similar claims of a large number of people. Why would it be surprising that off the top of their head an attorney can’t remember all of the claimants?

Nor is it surprising that there will be 70 people working on the case. There will be at least that many from the other side as well. Also, in a class action, if the plaintiffs prevail via trial or settlement, it is the job of the attorneys to set up a mechanism for making payments to all potential class members. I don’t know how many people took this drug, but if it’s very many at all 70 will be a modest number based on the work in processing those claims.