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There is a clear winner in the new healthcare legislation

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Apparently, malpractice attorney's are going to do pretty well for themselves. According to an article on CNN, this little nugget is in the bill that the House approved:

"It's Section 2531 of the bill -- to be precise Section 2531(4)b -- and it provides as follows:

The new health bill will empower the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to states that reform their medical malpractice systems. There are just two conditions: Those reforms must not "limit attorneys' fees or impose caps on damages."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/09/frum.trial.lawyers.victory/index.html

To paraphrase Pete Townsend "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

And before you assume boss as in Obama versus Bush, in this case I mean the special interests that dictate to Congress what they want.

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