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Waiting for the Docs Tort Reform Was Supposed to Deliver

By Suzanne Batchelor

The Texas Observer | October 22, 2007

The campaign to pass Proposition 12 promised that tort reform would cause doctors to begin returning to Texas' sparsely populated regions -- that promise has now been tested for four years, and it has not proven to be true.

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