Innovative ways to stimulate the economy: Tort reform to reduce health care costs

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Ask doctors and insurance companies what is the single greatest expense of their health practice and, two times out of three, the answer will be "malpractice insurance." (The other answer is probably "subsidizing the uninsured," an equally great problem, but one for another column.) All economists and medical experts agree that tort reform is sorely needed.