Just for chuckles, let's look at the voting results for the "Patients First Act of 2003, A bill to protect patients' access to quality and affordable health care by reducing the effects of excessive liability costs":
Kerry (D-MA), Not Voting
Edwards (D-NC), Nay
Back to the present, thanks to Overlawyered:
According to one of his health care advisers, the Massachusetts Senator actually supports "meaningful but enactable" malpractice reform, according to a new report. (Mark A. Hofmann, "Adviser says Kerry supports malpractice reform", Business Insurance Daily News, Aug. 4). The Kerry campaign website has more (scroll down).
Is "enactable" even a word? Assuming it is, how can reform be meaningful if it's not enactable? Is Kerry hoping that emphasis-by-tautology will keep people from noticing that he didn't even vote on S.11 last year? With John Edwards, Ambulance Chaser as his running mate, am I suppose to believe he'd do anything meaningful in the way of malpractice reform? Please.
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