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[AnotherGreenWorld]

"Is it safe to say after patients lost their Constitutional rights to private action that the cost of malpractice insurance still hasn't come down?"

Why don't more liberals get pissed off about this?

And why doesn't Edwards bring up the issue of medical malpractice and connect it with not just a larger theme about health care, but the larger populist theme of his campaign? He could show people that as a trial lawyer he fought for people's rights, fought to hold incompetent doctors accountable, etc.

Republicans portray Edwards as a greedy lawyer who got rich 'stealing' the hard-earned money of doctors (See, for example, Ann Coulter on Hardball a few months back).

Discussing medical malpractice in a populist manner would do much to discredit this attack, which, though not used as much as in 2004, still has currency and undoubtedly would come up again were he to get the nomination.