Doctors speak out on health care reform
The Times Herald News, Norristown, PA - Jul 6, 2009
...“Malpractice reform must be a key element of any reform. We need to resolve conflicts in a different fashion,” Montgomery County Medical Society President Mark Lopatin agreed...

GOP pushing malpractice reform
Roll Call, Washington, DC - Jul 6, 2009
...The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s markup of health care legislation is just the latest skirmish in what has been a long-standing partisan battle — the fight to change medical malpractice laws...

Opinion - Martin Henrichs: Here's an option to president's health care plan
Post-Tribune, Merrillville, IN - Jul 6, 2009
...Restrict malpractice lawsuits. Doctors pay too much for insurance and may order tests beyond what is reasonable to protect themselves...

Opinion - Terry Paulson: Keeping the costs down
Ventura County Star, Camarillo, CA - Jul 6, 2009
...Demand national tort reform and realistic caps to help control frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits that add costs as well as unnecessary tests and procedures to protect those providing care...

Opinion - Roger Sevigny: Insurance commissioner defends $110m transfer from malpractice fund
The Telegraph, Hudson, NH - Jul 5, 2009
As the insurance commissioner for the state of New Hampshire, I have been named in a lawsuit filed by three health-care providers about the state's proposed use of excess surplus from the New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association (JUA)...

Opinion - Anita Bellin: We deserve better in health care
Bennington Banner, VT - Jul 5, 2009
...We will need to expand the numbers of primary physicians so we should be prepared to pay for their education and malpractice insurance costs in exchange for specific numbers of years as practicing physicians. After World War II, we paid for teacher education with the caveat that the students would teach for a number of years. Why not repeat that success?...

Opinion - Michael Weitekamp: From my experience as a doctor, acountability has to be a part of health equation
The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Jul 5, 2009
...Patients often equate more care with better care, doctors and hospitals are paid better to intervene than to advise, and the threat of litigation influences doctors and hospitals to do more than they might believe is indicated so as not to be second-guessed in a malpractice action...

Editorial: Health care reform must include leashing trial lawyers
San Francisco Examiner, CA - Jul 5, 2009
...The key to understanding the president’s rejection, of course, lies in the fact that especially prominent among his party’s biggest contributors are the trial lawyers who make millions in fees from malpractice suits regardless whether they win or lose with the judge or jury...