Hey, thanks once again to the Manhattan Institute for yet another free promo for the Center for Justice & Democracy state AG report! And to top it off, again, no critique of the report - although they do regurgitate some old papers written by the Washington Legal Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, and themselves all of whom seem to hate it when state law enforcement – i.e. Attorneys General - crack down on corporate abuse. No surprise there. I mean, is there a rich corporation or industry in America that doesn’t fund these groups? (Not to mention their corporate counsel who charge more per hour than an injured person makes in benefits in two weeks.)
The free promo reminds me of the time when the American Enterprise Institute published a paper crediting Center for Justice & Democracy and CJ&D’s project, Americans for Insurance Reform, for, in their words, “stunting the medical malpractice debate” in Congress over bills that would essentially take dollars away from injured patients and put them into the pockets of insurance companies. Then Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist forced four votes in three years on these kinds of bills, each time resulting in stunning defeat. We thanked AEI then for giving us that kind of credit and publicity! And once again, we thank them all.
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