Because the prevailing party, i. E. The corporation that got the case dismissed, cannot impose any fees. Shouldterprising judge look for a crack in the american rule doctrine so in cases which are brought solely sessions brought solely for the economic interest of the lawyers , these i think in many cases are pretty apparent, a judge can maybe bad faith, but that thate a bit of a stretch, the plaintiff lawyers will have or someurse the company part of its legal expenses. There are judges who might be willing to do that. One of my pet peeves in the class action system, which we have not touched upon, the lone star. A big word that simply means, the number of hours you worked times the hourly fee. Book that some of the lawyers have fees that are out of the world. Only 24day on earth is hours, some of the lawyers bill on saturn time, where it is 704 billion hours. I have seen bills with 72 hours billed in single days. Not that uncommon. The lone star is on an honor system basis. Frankly,
Host again, thanks for joining us this president s day. Going to get straight to comments from facebook on our topic, who is your favorite president and why . Lincoln. Tes abraham he was a common man, not highly educated or from a wealthy family. I believe he was truly saddened when we became involved in the civil war which killed so many of our people. He had a caring heart and wanted what was best for citizens of our country. He was truly a great man. , t below him, manny writes too surprising choices. James k. Polk, set up for your platform and a compass 100 of it. And chester a arthur, a new york patronage stalwart who worked to eliminate it in his three years in office. First call from new york to a is on our line for republicans. Caller my favorite president is Ronald Reagan and i feel the country was at its strongest when he was president does 8 years. At its strongest since maybe the 50s. Before him and after him the country was in that strong. And no one messed around with us
Years. Storiesybe one of those that is too good to investigate, to she knew what she wanted do. Let me introduce you to a couple of people here as we wrap up the introductions to key Staff Members involved. Yeta who is running camera. She doesnt look like it right now. These days it is done with joysticks and things that look remarkably like ipads. That is that johnny . He spent much of the series giving me cues, telling me to move along when im supposed to. The role of floor director and one person who declined to be on camera. Terry murphy the Vice President none of using and would be doing this if we didnt have his involvement. As we end our project here, end the series, i will turn to each you and ask so long look across this history of first ladies who are the ones that really made the role asce in change the we know it today . A question we started with early on. Lets wrap that way. Richard . If Martha Washington would not have been as successful defining what a president and lad
Year will be the 1415 budget and the 1516 budget that will cover it . Absolutely. And in the twoyear budget thats was adopted last year for year 1415 which was the second year we had a significant appropriation in that budget already and then this budget will include the remainder of that appropriation in year 1516. So, were on track. Its a significant amount that were on track as far as appropriations for that. Thank you. So, just i wont go into great detail on all the initiatives, but just to get at kind of some of the themes were getting at. As i said, improving outcomes and access, thats a capote pry erth for us and we have a number of proposed initiatives in our budget to do that that we have expansion significantly of our primary Care Clinical capacity. Were trying to add capacity at existing sites and look at where we can get additional capacity that will help us to get people in faster and allow us to retain clients and, therefore, to retain our revenue base as we go into the A
And that was what prompted my direction to say we are going to overhaul the standard performance contract for Medical Center direct recent visitor directors because we are not going to have a contract with their result is aligned with the patient outcome. I think is going to take some of those kinds of structural changes as well to ensure we get people focused. The last thing i would say is this. You know, we are so focused on wait times. As we think about how we teach timeliness of that is in the future, the centerpiece of that is a much more robust focus on patient satisfaction. I think that helps us resent her back on the veteran we are serving in notley cannot wait times in the 700 other metrics that weve got people. Those types of responses should be the driving force to whether someone gets a bonus or how they are compensated. Yes. The spec or general reply to us at it is led to more layers of administrative aspect rather than actual care and that really is a concern. I had a mee