Little, politics aside, seems to have come out of the $25m spent by AHRQ and HHS since 2009 on malpractice liability demonstration projects, here. For Politico Brett Norman, here, reports that federal legislation is now "on ice" and that "unless the supercommittee acts, it looks like tort reform will be left for now to the states — many of which have already taken some kind of action." [NPT]