NU Online News Service, Sept. 17, 3:39 p.m. EDT

WASHINGTON–The Senate Finance Committee may add provisions capping the cost of medical malpractice awards to health care reform legislation when it acts on the measure next week.

The stage was set for such action through inclusion of a placeholder provision dealing with medical malpractice in "America's Healthy Future Act," the legislation introduced yesterday by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate panel.

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