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Congress needs to get serious about Medicaid. To borrow a medical analogy: If a state is the patient, and Congress is its doctor, giving states a temporary increase in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) to treat the problems associated with Medicaid is malpractice. Medicaid needs surgery, and increasing the FMAP is like giving it two aspirins instead. The temporary relief is not a

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$116M is awarded in stroke suit

TAMPA - A jury on Friday awarded a $116-million medical malpractice verdict to the family of a Tampa man who attorneys argued became a paraplegic after an unlicensed hospital worker misdiagnosed a stroke as sinusitis.

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The Root Of The Problem Is Medical Malpractice By Doctors

I read Gerry Spence's commentary with great interest and appreciation. Tort reformers claim that medical malpractice lawsuits are the root of the doctors' problem, which is high medical malpractice insurance premiums. Study after study has revealed that is not the case.

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