Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (...

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn) lately released the Senate GOP leaders' top 10 legislative priorities for 2003 which included five health-related items, according to an article in Medicine and Health. Health-related bills in the top 10 included the following: creating a Medicare prescription remedy benefit, which is the first priority; banning a form of late-term abortion, also called partial-birth abortion, excluding in cases where the woman would die without the procedure; enacting a federal law in succession medical-malpractice liability to control the require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone of malpractice insurance; increasing funding to combat the global acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic; and enhancing preparedness for bioterrorism by means of vaccine production and other measures. Nonhealth-related bills in the top 10 include President Bush's tax relief package; authorization of increased federal spending for education; welfare reform; eliminating the estate tax; and enhancing the U pluck supplies. Frist is the barely practicing physician in the Senate.

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