My deeper aggravation is the issue, not anyone’s summary of it: You and Mr. Lessig largely agree that free market alternatives will lead to better results on than regulation. It’s a nice theory. The reality here on the ground, in rural northwest florida, is that AT&T+SBC+BellSouth is buying up and driving out all competition, using existing regulation. We can wait for free market theory, but we’ll be thousands of dollars poorer … we need the regulation in-place to be made fair, now.

Paying obnoxious amounts for passable internet, from the only provider,
-Glenn

The roundup blog posts are assembled over several days (or weeks, even), as I bookmark webpages I want to follow up on. If the bookmark queue gets too large or too old, I empty it into a roundup post. I misremembered the LA Times article when summarizing it. I regret the error, though continue to note that the article doesn’t consider whether EMTALA was a mistake to begin with. The article’s proposed solution is to take the people who abuse EMTALA the most, and reward them with elaborately personalized care from a “health coach.” That’s only going to make the problem worse.

I don’t find Balko’s analysis problematic. You’re free to disagree with it. I freely admit that I usually ignore comments sections in all but a handful of blogs, and I did so in Balko’s post. But reviewing it now, I don’t see anything in those comments that makes me regret having linked to the Balko post.

Readers of Overlawyered, or the linked-to blogs, are not usually members of the plaintiff’s right’s crowd. We don’t need to be pounded with distortions and rhetoric to bring us around to your side; believe me, you’re singing to the choir! But we’re (I’m) relying on Overlawyered to bring us a reasoned wrap-up, and summaries of events which we can use to poke at our less enlightened friends, as we scramble around in the real world trying not to get sued ourselves, trying not to end up as subjects in your blog.

It’s your blog, and I can’t imagine stopping reading it, for reasons other than time crunch. But you’re hurting credibility when you let your intent get in the way of your facts or commentary. It’s not like we don’t have enough craziness out here, just dealing with the legal insanity that already exists.

-Glenn