Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $18,093
22%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 22%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: 2gnp

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Easing the pain and suffering of medical-malpractice lawsuits - (2% OF GDP! - majority for reform)

    01/15/2005 9:18:25 PM PST · by CHARLITE · 10 replies · 806+ views
    SEATTLETIMES.COM ^ | JANUARY 14, 2005 | COLLIN LEVEY
    Congressional Democrats could use a spoonful of sugar this week to help swallow their medicine. With tort reform on top of the Bush administration's to-do list, a new poll suggests Americans are solidly in favor of capping jury awards against the health-care industry. The poll, done by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, came the week after Presdient Bush gave speeches in Illinois to focus attention on the need for medical-malpractice reform. While only a quarter of those polled said lawsuits were their top health-care policy concern, 63 percent said they would support a law...