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On the recordMarch 9, 1995
If the gentleman will permit, medical malpractice and defensive medicine is a real problem. We need to address it. We need to look at a lot of different alternatives, alternative dispute mechanisms, some ways to compensate people who can never find an attorney to allow them to get some access to some reward for the pains that they have suffered. But this does not address these issues. The committees have never held hearings on it. This is an amendment dropped on us this morning in this latest form and I am sure that as they read through how poorly drafted it is, with the unintended, I assume unintended consequences, that it is an embarrassment to those who are supporting it.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Discussing concerns over a medical malpractice amendment during a House floor debate.

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