Editorial: 3 GOP health care ideas Obama would do well to embrace
USA Today - Aug 25, 2009
...Limiting outsized punitive-damage awards is one idea. Another is to set up medical courts or arbitration panels with the expertise necessary to weed out frivolous claims...

Competing ideas in the reform debate
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, GA - Aug 24, 2009
...A major cost-control measure in the bill is reforming medical malpractice litigation, which doctors say drives up costs, by establishing special health courts to hear cases, encouraging speedy resolution and limiting punitive damages...

Opinion - Robert L. Hale: Democracy, something we just don't have
Southwest News-Herald, Chicago, IL - Aug 24, 2009
...The increase in the cost and complexity of health care is due to three factors — the advent of Medicare, the explosion of malpractice litigation, and excessive time and cost imposed on pharmaceutical companies to bring medications to the U.S. marketplace...