# 42 Bush to strengthen medical industry grip over citizens.

There are frivolous suits to be sure, but the solution is to throw THEM out, not to cap all lawsuits and thwart a citizen's ability to be recompensed in legitimate cases.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050102/D87BKL6G0.html

Bush to Push for Medical Liability Changes

Jan 1, 8:12 PM (ET)
CRAWFORD, Texas

(AP) - President Bush will travel to Illinois next week to push for revisions in medical liability law that he has said are needed to eliminate "frivolous lawsuits that are driving up the cost of health care."

White House Trent Duffy said Thursday that Bush will deliver a speech on the subject Wednesday, Jan. 5, in Collinsville, Ill. No other details of the trip were released.

Limiting class-action lawsuits and medical liability claims were among the issues lawmakers left unfinished in the 108th Congress. Caps on damage awards of varying types have been implemented in 27 states, but a proposed federal cap, though successful in the House, was defeated because of Democratic opposition in the Senate.

Republicans strengthened their majorities in both chambers and intend to work again with Bush to impose a nationwide cap on pain and suffering awards.