This is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about when I declare that "politicians and lawyers are ruining our country!" Fucking 'liability issues' preventing impoverished inner-city <b>children</b> from enjoying a good meal as they eat bologna sandwiches instead of decent food, while growing increasingly bitter at the 'white man' for dining on steak and lobster down the road while they're stuck eating (taxpayer funded) government cheese with a side of crack. It really doesn't have to be that way! Politicians and lawyers have legislated and litigated themselves WAY too much power in America, and now it's up to the people to rise up and push them back down into their place.
I really don't know why things are that way. It's almost as if it's just some ploy to create income for lawyers. I often think that this is the one major flaw of western societies, the tendency to be excessively bureaucratic. In one Canadian province, there's actually one bureaucrat/administrator for every actual health care worker. 1:1 ratio. I know a guy who recently moved to Hong Kong from NYC and said he was shocked at how much more efficiently it was run compared to NYC. He said the entire income tax code was roughly 25 pages long. I feel that this tendency contributes to higher health care costs in the USA, doctors give test after test, excessively so. They can get sued otherwise...