Maryland's Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Fund is turning over $84 million to the state and cutting malpractice premiums next year for the state's doctors. The Fund was sete up in 2005 to help the state's doctors deal with rising medical malpractice insurance rates, with revenue from an HMO tax supplying the Fund. As the Maryland Public Policy Institute noted at the time, "instead of identifying and solving Maryland’s malpractice problem, lawmakers will shift some of the problems’ costs onto taxpayers and consumers who certainly are not at fault for the crisis."

Now it seems that the Fund has collected too much money and is "returning" some of it to the government. Perhaps I'm confused, but I'm pretty sure this money came from taxpayers, not the Maryland state government. Do you think there is any chance of the money finding its way back to is rightful owners?