Doctors don't agree on how to reform health-care system
Tuscaloosa News, AL - Jun 22, 2009
...Several of the other doctors interviewed criticized Obama for not limiting awards in malpractice suits as part of his plan to bring down health-care costs...

Editorial: Malpractice a key element of health reform
Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY - Jun 22, 2009
...Dealing creatively with malpractice insurance, from award limits to a more streamlined, better regulated system that controls premiums, is one of those promising paths...

Editorial: Learning lessons from economic cycles
Eagle Tribune, North Andover, MA - Jun 22, 2009
...The other budget-balancing trick of legislators is to spend down every reserve account they can find. Budget writers in New Hampshire will raid a medical malpractice reserve fund for $110 million even though it is unclear whether they have the legal right to do so...

Editorial: Health reform: All parties gotta give in a little
Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - Jun 22, 2009
...The American Medical Association does not want anything that reduces costs to physicians, or does not include a cap on malpractice suits. ...

Editorial: Our view: Tired malpractice debate ignores promising solutions
USA Today - Jun 22, 2009
...Unless doctors and lawyers move from the extremes of the malpractice debate, the public will be denied what it wants most a reduction in the medical errors that occur all too often.

Opinion - Les Weisbrod: Opposing view: Don't limit legal rights
USA Today - Jun 22, 2009
...Eliminating errors and keeping patients safe will most certainly accomplish these goals. And this is something all of us can support.

Opinion - Dennis G. Danko: Health care's 'untouchable' cost
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Jun 21, 2009
..Like all previous reform proposals out of Washington, the great untouchable has been reining in the medical malpractice lawyer. Yet malpractice lawsuits are a major reason why costs are what they are...

Medical horror stories remain a reality
ABC News - Jun 21, 2009
...One Federal program, the National Practitioner Databank, is supposed to head off those costly lawsuits by keeping tabs on bad doctors...

Editorial: The "real issue"
St. Clair Record, WI - Jun 21, 2009
...Obama's words unleashed a torrent of defensiveness by trial lawyers, insisting it is the doctors and health care executives, not the folks like them filing so many medical malpractice lawsuits, who deserve blame for soaring health care costs...

Opinion - Darren McKinney: Lawsuits that make care costly
The Washington Post, DC - Jun 21, 2009
...According to the 900 doctors surveyed, on average, 18 to 28 percent of tests, procedures, referrals, and consultations and 13 percent of hospitalizations were ordered to avoid lawsuits...

Opinion - Gene Van Loan: Stop education-funding foolishness
Nashua Telegraph, Hudson, NH - Jun 21, 2009
...For example, we have stolen $110 million from New Hampshire's hospitals and doctors who naively thought that the surplus they had built up in the so-called Joint Underwriting Association due to their overpayment of malpractice insurance premiums was their money...

Editorial: Obama misses an opportunity
The Buffalo News, NY - Jun 21, 2009
...in refusing to consider caps on legal damages awards, he risks forfeiting an opportunity not just to secure urgently needed health care reform, but to impose something like fairness on the civil justice system...