But if the drug companies or medical device companies try to help you, AND you willingly accept their help, if that attempt at helping actually harms you, SUE THEM?

Bah. Only in cases of negligence (like, say, you know studies suggest your drug harms more than it helps and you willfully ignore and hide that and market it anyway) should such lawsuits be entertained.

But finding out years later that the drug that helped your condition also caused some bad side-effect? I should sue you for soaking up my tax money in the court system.

If only someone had the balls to stand up to them. Not very likely.

So you’re saying that because a product helps some people live it’s ok if it causes other people to die? The only thing this law does is take away the incentive for a company to do its best to ensure the safety of the medical devices they produce.

When someone dies because a heart defibrillator goes haywire and shocks them to death, you don’t think the family should be allowed to sue the company who made it? What the hell is wrong with you?

The McDonalds coffee lawsuit, which people often point to as an outrageous miscarriage of justice, was in fact a far more complex case that, when examined, yielded a lenient result.

Lawsuits are what private citizens have in their arsenal to protect themselves against the abuses against them by corporate power. Now that the Fortune 500 is firmly entrenched as the fourth branch of government, they seek to take that power away from us. It won’t be too hard since as a nation we, by and large, lack critical thinking skills and tend to get our “informed” views from the very media sources owned by the same corporations.