Editorial: Cure for what ails U.S.: Obama health plan fails to deal with rising costs
New York Daily News, NY - Aug 18, 2009
...Three, free doctors from excessive malpractice suits. Extra costs from defensive medicine have inflated expenses 18%...

Editorial: Questions, challenge on health-care reform
Hickory Daily Record, Hickory, NC - Aug 18, 2009
...So we ask, if the insurance carrier deems a doctor's orders are unnecessary and without foundation, can the physician be sued for malpractice? The answer, of course, is no. But nobody seems to be able to resolve this conundrum...

Opinion - Peter Morici: Obama's troubles with health care
Statesman Journal, Salem, OR - Aug 18, 2009
...Health care costs at least 50 percent more in the United States than in Canada and Western Europe, because of expensive malpractice suits, inefficient insurance company bureaucracies, comical inefficiencies and dangerously low standards at many hospitals, and doctor fees and drug prices much higher than abroad...

Opinion - James B. Dolan, MD: FMA opposes House health care reform bill
Herald Tribune, Sarasota, FL - Aug 18, 2009
...Medical liability reform, which is not included in HR 3200, is absolutely essential to cost containment. Numerous studies have shown that effective medical liability reform will significantly lower health care costs ...

Liberals complain over Obama concession
The Associated Press - Aug. 17, 2009
...He called for concentrating on other areas, including curbs on medical liability lawsuits, wellness programs and a tax break to help everyone afford coverage...

Opinion - James H. "Smokey" Shott: Don't dismantle the nation's current health care system -- fix it
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV - Aug 17, 2009
...Medical liability reform will reduce or eliminate defensive medicine practices that add so much to the cost of medical care, and also increases the price of medical malpractice insurance...

Opinion - Jeremy Lukens: Healthcare reform that would actually work
Examiner.com - Aug 17, 2009
...there is one more thing that would drastically reduce the cost of healthcare: tort reform. It’s kind of a dirty word on Capitol Hill, but it’s absolutely necessary if anyone is truly serious about reform...