Details on health care bills in House, Senate
Associated Press - Nov 6, 2009
...HOW IT'S PAID FOR: No new taxes, but Republicans would get savings by capping medical liability awards, stepping up efforts to fight Medicare and Medicaid fraud...

Employers cope with insurance shifts
The Gazette, Gaithersburg, MD - Nov 6, 2009
...He said he has yet to see much in the federal legislation to cut costs, such as medical malpractice reform. "In any case, something has to be done," Rogers said.

Editorial: GOP offers cheaper approach to health reform
The Detriot News, MI - Nov 6, 2009
...It uses market-based principles and does not include government subsidies or a public option. But it would trim costs through strict limits on medical malpractice lawsuits...

Editorial: Chloroform for tort reform
Washington Times, DC - Nov 6, 2009
...In the weak guise of offering incentives to states to create "alternative medical liability" laws, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's big-government health plan actually discourages the most widely used and effective means of reining in lawsuit abuse...

AMA uneasy in support of ObamaCare
Forbes.com - Nov 5, 2009
...Left open were two major issues: reforming the medical malpractice system and changing the formula that Medicare uses to determine how much to reimburse physicians...

AMA supports House health care bill despite dissent
Houston Chronicle, TX - Nov 5, 2009
...“I continue to be perplexed at the short-term focus of the AMA on this issue — over which they are willing to swallow hook, line and sinker the rest of the Pelosi bill,” Cornyn said. “The Pelosi bill not only fails to include common-sense medical liability reform for physicians, but it includes a new government program that will have all the same problems we've seen with Medicare.”...

Texas AARP joins national group in endorsing healthcare bill
Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, TX - Nov 5, 2009
..Officials with the Texas group said Thursday that it believes that the bill has some important provisions but that it finds some terms unacceptable. It has pushed, for example, for inclusion of a federal cap on medical malpractice cases, much like the one in Texas, and has sought a provision that would allow physicians to own medical facilities...

Health reform bill would call for insurer scrutiny, says AIA
National Underwriter, Hoboken, NJ - Nov 5, 2009
Legislation to repeal the antitrust exemption for health and medical malpractice insurers has been modified to include scrutiny of those insurers practices, an insurance trade group said...

AIA: New health bill antitrust provision may be a trap
National Underwriter, Hoboken, NJ - Nov 5, 2009
...Unlike the earlier versions of the antitrust repeal language, the latest version does not introduce new, undefined statutory terms such as “price-fixing” or “market allocation,” Rethmeier says. But the latest provision would let federal antitrust laws broadly apply to the “business of health insurance or the business of medical malpractice insurance,” Rethmeier says...