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To: JakeStraw who wrote (29289)	10/14/2004 3:03:33 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

"But even large savings in premiums can have only a small direct impact on health care spending--private or governmental--because malpractice costs account for less than 2 percent of that spending." cbo.gov "The available evidence suggests that premiums have risen both because insurance companies have faced increased costs to pay claims (from growth in malpractice awards) and because of reduced income from their investments and short-term factors in the insurance market."