Doctors' Priority: Liability Reform

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President Bill Clinton revived his efforts for health-care reform by promising the American Association of Retired Persons additional benefits in long-term care and prescription coverage while he is trying to convince the American people that the plan will cut the deficit.

These contradictions are not by any standard the most outrageous points in the Clinton plan. What is really the most disappointing about the plan is the lack of effective liability reform.

On one hand, physicians support the concepts of universal coverage, community rating, eliminating the exclusion from coverage of pre-existing conditions, portability of coverage, patients' choice of …