The health care bill recently unveiled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi
is over 1,900 pages for a reason. It is much easier to dispense
goodies to favored interest groups if they are surrounded by
a lot of legislative legalese. For example, check out this juicy morsel
to the trial lawyers (page 1431-1433 of the bill):

Section 2531, entitled “Medical Liability Alternatives,” establishes
an incentive program for states to adopt and implement
alternatives to medical liability litigation. [But]…… a state
is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law
on the books that limits attorneys’ fees or imposes caps on damages.