What will Gary Palmer do about Johns Hopkins Hospital?

Should Johns Hopkins Hospital be required to pay $190 million to thousands of women who were secretly filmed by a doctor during gynecological exams? (See Reuters, July 21, 2014 article  "Johns Hopkins Hospital settles lawsuit with women filmed by doctor".)

If you have been paying close attention to my campaign and you understand my diagnosis of what is wrong with Congress, you may know that the foregoing question has a strong connection to my campaign.

As discussed in my entry last Friday BhamBizJournal: "Congressional Inaction Could Derail Recovery",  in my diagnosis of what is wrong with Congress, I evolved an analytic of lawmakers being frequently confronted with a matter in which there are general societal interests on two or more sides of the matter, and a special, one sided interest of a small group, and I put forth the idea that the American people and American business would be better off if lawmakers made their decisions based on balancing the general societal interests and ignoring a special, one sided interest of a small group.

This analytic is further discussed in a speech I prepared for the May 12th "Birmingham's Future for Young Professionals" candidate forum, sponsored by Rotaract Club of Birmingham and the Birmingham Business Journal. In the speech, I particularly applied the analytic to several examples, including that of plaintiffs' lawyers. Said prepared speech can be read at Birmingham's Future For Young Professionals. See also The GM faulty ignition recall and My American Lawmaker's Creed.

If you have strong reactions, one way or the other, to plaintiffs' lawyers and their class action lawsuits and the liabilities and settlements that arise from them  (such as Johns Hopkins Hospital having to pay $190 million to thousands of women who were secretly filmed by a doctor during gynecological exams), you ought to be interested in what Gary Palmer thinks about what I have been saying in my campaign and what I say above, and what he would do as a Congressman related to the same.