"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:56togvksbaaia8k9h4oqkfg4butlped9cg@4ax.com...
>
> From The Associated Press, 7/9/03:
> http://www.adn.com/24hour/politics/s...-6552824c.html
>
> Senate Democrats win fight over medical malpractice awards
>
> By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
>
> WASHINGTON
>
> Senate Democrats won their fight Wednesday to bottle up legislation
> limiting damage awards in medical malpractice cases, all but dooming a
> measure that President Bush made a priority.
>
> The vote was 49-48, 11 short of the 60 needed to overcome the
> Democratic-led filibuster.

It's the same thing Bush did in Texas when he was governor...
Funding his campaigns on the backs of medical malpractice
victims. Somewhere between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans
are essentially murdered each year.
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309068371/html/

RickW

"Rick" <me@privacy.net> wrote in
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> "Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:56togvksbaaia8k9h4oqkfg4butlped9cg@4ax.com...
>>
>> From The Associated Press, 7/9/03:
>> http://www.adn.com/24hour/politics/s...-6552824c.html
>>
>> Senate Democrats win fight over medical malpractice awards
>>
>> By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
>>
>> WASHINGTON
>>
>> Senate Democrats won their fight Wednesday to bottle up legislation
>> limiting damage awards in medical malpractice cases, all but dooming
>> a measure that President Bush made a priority.
>>
>> The vote was 49-48, 11 short of the 60 needed to overcome the
>> Democratic-led filibuster.
>
> It's the same thing Bush did in Texas when he was governor...

Texas has a law limiting damage awards in medical malpractice cases.