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Last year, legislation that would have limited the pain and suffering of medical malpractice awards to $250,000, as well as limiting punitive damages to the same amount or twice the patient''s actual financial loss, but it died in Congress. Now, Bush is arguing that a nationwide medical malpractice cap would drive down rising health care costs and save taxpayer dollars, calling the lawsuits "frivolous". Democrats have continued to argue medical malpractice awards caps would only help the insurance industry and not the patients.
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