No kidding - who does she think pays for those huge lawsuits? It's every consumer who actually has to pay for their medications.
But I don't think this is much more than a step in the righ tdirection. What really needs to happen is for this to be the stepping stone to tort reform.
It sounds like a good angle for the Feds to get involved with medical tort reform, but it still has to happen at the state level to get protection from shysters like Edwards. I believe the case he won started a very large increase in the number of deliveries by Ceasarian section while the number of children born with cerebral palsy remained the same.