[Howlin]

I confess I am not up to speed on that; I happened by the hearing on CSPAN yesterday just in time to hear our senator from Alaska <?> telling Joe Liebermann that today wasn't the day to DECIDE what the liability coverage was going to be, that today was the day we needed to set the process in motion and worry about the liability details later.

The Democrats aren't willing to even CONSIDER starting the manufacturing until they have their lawyer friends taken care of!

[BigSkyFreeper]

I watched Chuck Grassley give my DUmmie Senator Baucus the verbal smackdown on CSPAN2 today. Talking about the fact that the left has allowed Bush's tax cut proposal sunset through stall tactics. It was a beautiful thing to watch. Baucus was stammering, but then again, he's always stammering.

[Cboldt]

Liability is a separate issue from avoiding the "cost" of patent protection, and can be managed independently from ethical drug prices, more or less.

The only possible intersection is reduction in liability for drug developers, and that is already fairly well curtailed.