In his last State of the Union speech tonight, President Bush said that "Congress must ... confront the epidemic of junk medical lawsuits" in order to make health care affordable. He didn't offer any details, but it was good to have the issue raised.
Med-mal Reform Gets Cameo in SOTU
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| Isaac Gorodetski Project Manager, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute igorodetski@manhattan-institute.org |
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