Editorial: N.H. is becoming a failed state
Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover, NH - Aug 7, 2009
...Judge McGuire's ruling last week determined the state's claim to the malpractice fund is unconstitutional — that the policyholders have a contractual right to the money. Her reasoning makes sense...

Opinion - Uwe E. Reinhardt: Lost in the shuffle: The overarching goals of health reform
New York Times, NY - Aug 7, 2009
...part of the infrastructure reform must be a move away from resolving disputes over alleged professional malpractice through the tort system toward alternative forms of dispute resolution that separate the compensation of injured patents from the question of professional misconduct...

Opinion - Gretchen Randall: Democrats should address malpractice insurance costs
Sun Journal, Lewiston, ME - Aug 7, 2009
...This epidemic of physician's flight has been triggered by a juggernaught of class-action lawsuits filed by some of the nation's wealthiest personal injury lawyers - often on behalf of "victims" who show no signs of illness. In many states, the annual medical malpractice insurance premium paid by doctors now exceeds $120,000...

Opinion - Charles Krauthammer: Attack health care inefficiences first
Lawrence Journal-World, Lawrence, KS - Aug 7, 2009
...What to do? Abolish the entire medical-malpractice system. Create a social pool from which people injured in medical errors or accidents can draw. The adjudication would be done by medical experts, not lay juries giving away lottery prizes at the behest of the liquid-tongued John Edwardses who pocket a third of the proceeds...