So, if Congress wishes to outlaw medical malpractice as a way of lowering the cost of healthcare, they are going to take a lot of heat as the real numbers become available to the public and we all discover that completely doing away with medical malpractice suits would, at best, have a negligible impact on our problem.

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Well the year 2000 was the year the Internet was expected to start affecting all our financial lives - shops, banks, even the government were telling us that doing things on line would become the way.

BBC: Money Box - Saturday 30 December 2000