Originally Posted by
RobbieTunes
Nice pun. Half the price of a ladder, 1/2 the price of a can of soda, 1/4 the price of home construction. Victim mentality and those who generate it are huge drains on the productivity of a nation. It's a destructive parasitic situation that sucks the vitality and creativity out of governments, institutions, new businesses, products, and services, and creates huge burdens on true victims to "prove it," because they're lumped in with the rest who don't.
Just another aspect of lack of personal accountability, on both sides of the issue, and guess who's getting rich off of it? There's enough money in fraud (both false and exaggeration) alone to create free health care for every citizen in the US.
As a prosecutor, I have prosecuted countless cases of insurance fraud. I agree, from personal experience, that insurance fraud (in the form of fraudulent claims for non-existent or minimal injuries) increase the cost of doing business. Additionally, fraudsters make it hard for people, with legitimate claims, to get compensation.