Democrats' main bill does not address medical malpractice regulations: Health care fact check
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH - Aug 31, 2009
...But regulating malpractice lawsuits, also known as tort reform, is a politically contentious topic so there are no guarantees. Many of the current proposals address malpractice lawsuits...

Organized medicine aims to strengthen liability provisions in reform bill
American Medical News, Aug 31, 2009
...AMA continues to favor noneconomic damage caps. But the Association plans to press for other comprehensive measures to help cut down on defensive medicine practices...

Editorial: Why Democrats won't cross the trial lawyers
Washington Examiner, DC - Aug 31, 2009
...“The reason tort reform is not in the bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers in addition to everybody else they were taking on. And that’s the plain and simple truth.” Put otherwise, trial lawyers have effectively bought themselves veto power....

Opinion - Alan S. Boyd, MD: After reform, docs can think, do less
The Tennessean, Nashville, TN - Aug 31, 2009
...Medical malpractice will be less of an aggravation. Congress isn't going to bite the hand that feeds it by reining in the tort lawyers, meaning we'll still be financially at risk...

Opinion - Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband: Sorting fact from fiction on health care
The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY - Aug 30, 2009
...Further, at the AMA convention in June 2009, the president proposed linking protection for physicians from malpractice lawsuits if they strictly adhered to government-sponsored treatment guidelines. We need tort reform, but this is misconceived and again clearly inserts the bureaucrat directly into clinical decision making...

Opinion - Lance Cooper: 'Tort reform' a clever distraction
The Augusta Chronicle, GA - Aug 29, 2009
...Taking away patients' constitutional right to seek justice in a fair court of law, when they have been injured through no fault of their own, does nothing to improve our health care system, nor does it increase patient safety. And it is, simply, un-American...