REPORT: MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM WOULD LOWER HEALTHCARE SPENDING BY ONLY 1/2 OF 1% ANNUALLY LA Times, 10/10/09 According to the LA Times, the Congressional Budget Office reported on Friday that "medical malpractice reform is unlikely to cut healthcare spending significantly...Enacting a cap on pain-and-suffering and punitive damages, changing liability laws and tightening the statute of limitations on malpractice claims would lower total healthcare spending by about one-half of 1% each
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