House GOP plans to offset cost of ending IPAB by limiting medical malpractice suits.

CQ (3/10, Attias, Ethridge, Subscription Publication) reported, "House Republicans are planning to use an amended measure to restrict medical malpractice lawsuits as a way to offset the cost of abolishing" the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). "Laena Fallon, a spokeswoman for the office of Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said the House will offset the cost using an amended version of a measure sponsored by Phil Gingrey, R-Ga. As approved by the Energy and Commerce Committee last May, the bill (HR 5) would impose caps on some damages in malpractice lawsuits, limit attorney fees and establish a statute of limitations for filing health care lawsuits."