In one of the most cruel and underhanded political maneuvers yet, President Bush is trying to strip patients and consumers of the right to seek damages from injuries sustained as a result of defective, poorly manufactured and misused medical devices. Also, consumers and patients who experience adverse side affects and harm to their health due to mislabeled instructions, substandard quality, or misleading, exaggerated advertising claims by drug companies will no longer be able to seek damages of any kind---much less a cap on the amount of awards for pain, suffering and medical complications.
President Bush has scored another backdoor, Federal Court victory against the rights of all Americans to protection from the unscrupulous practices of some corporations, and he accomplished it with little public awareness and little or no media attention.
In a front page article in the NY Times (7/25/04) it was revealed that
