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The Trial Lawyers' Earmark: Using Medicare to Finance the Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous, by Edwin Meese III and Hans A. von Spakovsky

In one of the starkest examples of how plaintiffs' lawyers want to use Congress to get rich at the expense of the American taxpayer, an amendment that would have generated abusive Medicare litigation on a massive scale--along with the usual huge attorneys' fees--was recently added to the health care reform bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.[1] The current Medicare ...

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