[Mb-civic] Misdirection on Malpractice

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Misdirection on Malpractice 
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January 10 2005

There's not much evidence to support President Bush's assertion last week that medical malpractice awards are to blame for high healthcare costs. For one thing, insurers that have raised malpractice premiums in recent years have tended to do so less because of soaring jury awards than because of declining stock market returns. 

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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-medmal10jan10,0,5225963.story 

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