It capped medical liability for noneconomic damages at $250,000 per health care provider, with a maximum award of $750,000.
Having the states' legislative assemblies pass a statute that caps medical malpractice victims' non-economic damages at $250,000 will forestall the Tenth Amendment challenge.
Instead they advanced a grab-bag of smaller proposals, like letting people buy insurance across state lines and capping medical malpractice awards.
With a larger majority in the Senate, the Bush administration, analysts say, may well be able to win approval for legislation capping medical malpractice payouts, which Democrats have thwarted in the past.
About to be pushed by Republican leaders into an uncomfortable vote against capping medical malpractice awards, Senate Democrats joined today with a freshman Republican, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, to strike back with a malpractice bill of their own.
Top components in this exchange-traded fund include large-cap companies Medtronic, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Stryker, however this ETF also allows investors to have a foothold in a large number of smaller biotech firms without taking on the big risk of a small-cap medical stock.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has advocated capping medical malpractice awards at $250,000, but in 1999, his wife sued her doctor over a back injury and asked for twice that amount.
on Monday, would cut $83 billion in federal retirement benefits (equivalent to about a 5percentt pay cut), save $49 billion by capping medical malpractice lawsuits, slash about $48 billion from Medicaid programs and cut food aid by more than $36 billion.
