John Kerry (Mass.) for his position on the issue medical liability reform and his selection of Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), a former trial attorney, as Democratic vice presidential nominee, the Kansas City Star reports.

At a high school in Lee's Summit, Mo., Bush said that a lack of medical liability reform and increased medical malpractice insurance premiums have prompted a number of physicians to leave the state (Kraske, Kansas City Star, 9/8).

Bush said, "No one has ever been healed by a frivolous lawsuit in America. That's why we need medical liability reform now."

He added, "I don't think you can be pro-doctor, pro-hospital, pro-patient and pro-trial lawyer at the same time. I think you have to choose. My opponent made his choice and he put him on the ticket." Bush said of Edwards, "For 20 years, he has been one of the trial lawyers' most reliable allies in the Senate. He's consistently voted against legal reforms that would protect workers and entrepreneurs. ... Personal injury lawyers should not get richer at the expense of hard-working Americans." Phil Singer, a spokesperson for Kerry said, "This is the same president who raised Medicare premiums by a record amount last week and made the wrong choices on health care that have resulted in five million Americans losing their insurance over the last four years" (Jeffers, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, 9/8).

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