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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (25980)	1/11/2005 8:03:14 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 90947

But Democratic lawmakers and consumer watchdog groups cited a Congressional Budget Office analysis that said malpractice costs represented less than 2 percent of overall health care spending in 2002. "Thus, even a reduction of 25 percent to 30 percent in malpractice costs would lower health care costs by only about 0.4 percent to 0.5 percent, and the likely effect on health insurance premiums would be comparably small," the CBO said in its report a year ago. cnn.com "...But both the GAO and the CBO now question their sweeping conclusion. When the CBO attempted to duplicate the Stanford economists’ methods for other types of ailments they found found “no evidence that restrictions on tort liability reduce medical spending.” factcheck.org ======= Republicans constantly demand that Progressives prove their points but Republicans NEVER prove their points. Why don't you offer some proof for your positions?