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Sunday, April 03, 2005

Maybe he's figured out that then he and Jebbie would have had to pay for Terri Schiavo's care
Posted by Jill | 9:51 AM
Suddenly tort reform isn't as high on President Do What I Say Not What I Do's list of priorities:

Almost everywhere President Bush traveled on the campaign trail last year, he lashed out at plaintiffs' lawyers for filing "junk lawsuits" that he said were sending the cost of health care out of sight.

These days the president rarely mentions the topic, and the effort in Congress to rein in medical malpractice litigation has stalled, according to proponents and opponents of the bill.


Maybe it's because he realized that without medical malpractice lawsuits, his brother Jeb would have had to pay for Terri Schiavo's care entirely out of Medicaid dollars. Or maybe it's because the wife of fellow tort reform advocate Rick "Man On Dog" Santorum just won herself a tidy little sum in a lawsuit against a chiropractor. Or maybe it's because Bush himself filed suit against a rental car company after one of the twins was involved in a minor fender-bender in which the driver of the other car was driving a rental car.

I guess it's just too obvious to try to pass a law that bars only non-Republicans from filing lawsuits.
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