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Article Excerpt
The White House has a plan to "fix" medical-malpractice insurance premiums--by helping the insurance industry at the expense of injured patients. Meanwhile, the American Medical Association (AMA), backed by the Bush administration, is encouraging systematic, state-by-state doctor strikes--harming the very patients the doctors have pledged to treat.
President Bush met with AMA members last July and "vowed to make medical-malpractice revisions a top legislative priority," according to the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Donald Palmisano, AMA president-elect, said Bush told the doctors, "You need to get out the grass roots."
Since that closed-door session, doctors have been rallying and striking in several states, including Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, and West Virginia. And Bush has delivered...
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