Opinion - Lance Cooper: Lawsuits aren't the problem
Savannah Morning News, GA - Aug 19, 2009
...Supporters of tort reform argue that the threat of lawsuits makes doctors order unnecessary tests to protect themselves - a phenomenon they call defensive medicine -a nd yet there is no evidence to support those claims...

Opinion - Daphne Eviatar: Tort reform unlikely to cut health care costs
The Washington Independent, Washington, DC - Aug 19, 2009
...Amid the obstructionists’ claims that health care reform is “socialist” or a means of speeding Grandma towards her deathbed, a large focus of the conservative position on health care reform has been that frivolous lawsuits drive up health care costs and require doctors to practice “defensive medicine” that’s costly and wasteful...

Opinion - Bob Beckel: Dems' ace in the hole on health care: Tort reform
RealClearPolitics, Chicago, IL - Aug 18, 2009
...We Democrats have benefited mightily from the trial lawyers support and vice versa, but its time for these boys and girls to put some skin in the healthcare reform game and accept caps on pain and suffering malpractice awards...

Health care reform may prove costly
MSN Money (bizjournals.com) - Aug 18, 2009
...without some type of reform, health care costs, already 17 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, will continue to climb at an unsustainable rate, Schrader said...

Editorial: End health care chaos
The Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY - Aug 18, 2009
...Tort reform -- changing medical malpractice litigation -- also could save hundreds of billions by eliminating "cover your backside" testing and allowing doctors to practice and prescribe according to their own training and judgment, not to mention curtailing the costs of physician insurance that in turn also escalates health costs...

NH court sets date for malpractice arguments
Union Leader, Manchester, NH (Associated Press) - Aug 18, 2009
...The New Hampshire Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments on Oct. 15 in a dispute between the state and medical providers over $110 million in a malpractice fund...