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Kerry was answering a charge that he opposed tort reform and that "frivolous" lawsuits were costing the government $28 billion. Kerry's percentage figure was in the ballpark; health-care spending in 2002 was $1.6 trillion, and according to the Congressional Budget Office, malpractice costs were an estimated 1.5% of the total. Moreover, several studies have concluded that capping malpractice-lawsuit awards would have a negligible impact on health-care costs...
...votes would count for something. "It could make California and New York worth a Republican effort," says James Gimpel, an Electoral College expert at the University of Maryland. "Wouldn't it be nice, if you were a Democrat in Texas, to actually see a Democratic presidential candidate visit?" The reform would also greatly reduce the chance of a candidate winning the popular vote but losing the electoral vote...
...Phoenix foundation called the People's Choice for President went looking for a state where the rules could be changed by ballot initiative. In Colorado, case law has established that such initiatives are the equivalent of legislative acts. The foundation teamed up with reform-minded Coloradans, who started a campaign called Make Your Vote Count and collected more than 134,000 signatures to put 36 on the ballot. Most of the financial backing has come from J. Jorge Klor de Alva, the former president of the University of Phoenix, a for-profit adult-education school. Klor de Alva, who divides...
...year. He promises victory in Iraq without sending any more American troops. He promises more health insurance and lower taxes. He promises energy independence without pain. On the stump, he calls for a broader prescription-drug benefit for senior citizens but has nothing to say about Medicare reform...
...hiring contractors to perform many of the noncombat missions now being done by soldiers, so that those troops can put their fingers on triggers instead of keyboards. The goal is to streamline the military's cumbersome, costly bureaucracy. In Friday's debate, Bush summed up the rationale for his reform push: "We don't need mass armies anymore...