Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear,
free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to
oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my
country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights,
1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's
worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown
Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's
rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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Lorie Terry, spokesperson and researcher for the Coalition Against
No Fault Insurance, has just published an article in the Pain
Research & Management journal. In this article, Terry outlines the
faults of No Fault insurance in Saskatchewan and describes how our
Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) dictates unethical and
coercive rehabilitation programmes to dissuade automobile accident
victims from continuing with their right to proper rehabilitation
and compensation.
No Fault automobile insurance replaced the previous common Tort
system on January 1, 1995 and with this new insurance accident
victims cannot exercise their legal common remedy for pain and
suffering. Dr. David Cassidy and his group of intimate friends
praised the No Fault insurance program administered by SGI and in a
paper managed and financed by SGI they claimed that under the No
Fault coverage the victims were recovering twice as fast as in the
previous Tort system, that is an average of 203 days versus a
previous average of 433 days.
In past articles I have labelled Dr. Cassidy’s paper a fraud
against intelligent common sense as in his study Dr. Cassidy equates
the administrative closure of an insurance claim to the recovery of
the claimant. I also feel that Dr. Cassidy is an impostor as in
dismissing the Tort system he implies that most of the claimants are
crooks while SGI is right in providing him with a million dollar
funding for his research.
In describing the coercive rehabilitation program Lorie Terry
writes:
I can testify from personal experience that individuals
were forced to undertake preposterous and agonizing tasks. One
schedule required patients to carry pails of cement, pull bags
of sand, push carts of bricks, climb up and down old stadium
stairs repeatedly, rake gravel, drive screws into old metal
frameworks above their heads and below their waists, and lift
boxes with increasing amounts of weight each day.
No Fault insurance is wrong, and No Fault insurance is inhumane.
And in this regard let me point out that No Fault is a legal world
wide movement disguised as Tort Reform and preached by President
George Bush and Company. No Fault takes the law away from common
people and relegates the exercise of the law to the big corporations
suing each other over copyrights. This is happening to day in the
New World Order, the need of corporations have become more important
that the need of people, and the copyrights of corporations have
become more important than the pain and suffering of people.
References
Pertinent articles published in Ensign
Insurance research and medical ethics, Lorie Terry, Pain
Research & Management, Summer 2002, Volume 7, Number 2
http://www.pulsus.com/Pain/07_02/terr_ed.htm
"Tort Reform," Bush and the Enron Connection Center for
Justice and Democracy
http://www.centerjd.org/press/release/020126.htm
Editor's note: Over seventy
articles on this issue have been posted on this site since the
spring of 2000 we will try to get a bibliography of this subject on
a page for review and consideration. |
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