RNC Chairman Steele blasts Dems' health care vision as weak
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Jul 24, 2009
...Steele said doctors would stop on their own if Congress worked to reduce medical malpractice lawsuits. "Trial lawyers are ready to pounce. Doctors are doing unnecessary treatments to cover their backsides,"...

Opinion - Charles Krauthammer: Why Obamacare is sinking
The Enquirer, Cincinnati, OH - Jul 24, 2009
...This is not about politics? Then why is it, to take but the most egregious example, that in this grand health care debate we hear not a word about one of the worst sources of waste in American medicine: the insane cost and arbitrary rewards of our malpractice system?...

Editorial: The cost of good intentions: Obama's health care overhaul must rein in runaway expenses
New York Daily News, NY - Jul 24, 2009
...Then there's tort reform. Astronomical medical malpractice expenses force doctors out of business and lead to the excessive practice of defensive medicine, not to better care...

Opinion - Sally C. Pipes: Texas-style health care reform is bigger and better
The Examiner, San Francisco, CA - Jul 24, 2009
...Instituting common-sense medical malpractice reforms would improve care, cut costs and make insurance more affordable without additional government spending. We need look no further than the states to see how such positive returns are possible...

Opinion - John Andrews: Insurance fund surplus isn't the state's
Concord Monitor, Concord, NH - Jul 24, 2009
Unlike reporters and commentators, I have actually read the administrative rule through which the New Hampshire insurance commissioner established the Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association...

Court blocks $70 million malpractice award
The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ - Jul 24, 2009
The largest medical malpractice verdict ever awarded in New Jersey -- more than $70 million in damages to the parents of a boy who suffered brain damage as an infant -- was overturned yesterday by the state Supreme Court...