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Monday, March 31, 2008 12:00 AM

Barack Obama, working-class hero?

On a bus tour through Pennsylvania, Obama tries to impress blue-collar white voters. He'll need them to keep the state close in April -- or to win it in November.

By Mike Madden

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Monday, March 31, 2008 05:07 PM

OB/GYN's

I've heard (perhaps urban legends) that doctors were getting out of OB/GYN due to very high insurance costs. Is there price gouging going on and/or lots of litigation?

My understanding, purely anecdotal, is that since one of the factors in determining litigation judgements is projected lost earnings, and juries can reasonably project 70+ years of earnings for a baby that suffers damage in delivery, and since a good lawyer could probably make the case that the baby would have been the CEO of a multinational corporation, the payouts tend to be huge. I think it's the OB part rather than the GYN part that is the problem.

—RealityCounts Read RealityCounts's other letters

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