Despite friendly exchange, Obama and Republicans differ on medical legal liability issues

WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama remains opposed to limits on damages in medical liability cases, the White House said Thursday, even though he responded favorably to a Republican lawmaker recommending legislation along those lines to restrain health costs.

?I said West Virginia passed medical liability reforms and we should do it. Try it and you?ll like it,? Rep. Shelley Moore Capito said she told the president.

?He said, ?I?m all for it,? or, ?sounds great to me,?? the West Virginia Republican said Thursday in an interview, recalling the president?s response at his meeting a day earlier with the House Republican rank and file.

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