Overseas care saves cash
The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN (Associated Press) - Aug 24, 2009
...It can be difficult to sue an overseas provider in U.S. courts, said Nathan Cortez, a Southern Methodist University law school professor who studies medical tourism. And the average malpractice recovery in Thailand is about $3,000, roughly 1 percent of the U.S. average...

Two state courts, same ruling: Informed consent must include all options
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Aug 24, 2009
...Separate high court rulings in Maryland and Wisconsin may impose greater liability risks on physicians who fail to tell patients about treatment options...

Opinion - Joseph Califano: Bending the curve means health care reform, not just sick care reform
Winona Daily News, Winona, MN - Aug 24, 2009
...To reduce unnecessary expensive diagnostic tests and treatments, enact tort reform. Today the cheapest malpractice insurance for a physician is the MRI, PET or CAT scan...

Opinion - Deepak Chopra: The medical myth of more is better
San Francisco Chronicle, CA - Aug 24, 2009
...Second, bring malpractice coverage and lawsuits into line with reality, since many medical tests are motivated by physicians protecting themselves rather than protecting the patient's health...

Opinion - Adam Brodsky: O's insurance scam
New York Post, NY - Aug 24, 2009
...Dropping state mandates for unnecessary benefits can also cut costs and broaden "choice." And, of course, the unmentioned elephant in the room: medical-malpractice tort relief...

Opinion - Gordon Robinson: Health care reform is essential; slowing it down is more so
Waco Tribune-Herald, TX - Aug 23, 2009
...Any legislation passed should include meaningful tort reform similar to what Texas passed in 2003, limiting the amount hospitals and doctors pay in cases involving medical malpractice. Doctors and hospitals pay far too much to protect themselves against lawsuits. It works in Texas — just ask the trial lawyers...

Editorial: Attorneys should pony up
Washington Times, DC - Aug 23, 2009
...If doctors, insurance companies, drug companies, small businesses and individuals who choose not to buy insurance all must contribute something to the cause of health care reform, so too should the lawyers who make out like bandits under today's system...

Opinion - Jack Markowitz: Educated liberal's take on health care exasperates
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Aug 23, 2009
..And if there's a consensus on one flaw that adds a unique bloat to our system, it's the abuse of medical malpractice lawsuits that inflate doctors' insurance costs and pile up the billions in "defensive medicine" costs via excessive testing...

Opinion - Bob Roper: Give health care users what they want
Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia, MO - Aug 23, 2009
...Do something with respect to malpractice lawsuit reform. Doctors now overwhelmingly practice “defensive medicine” to lower the risk of being sued and to enhance the risk of prevailing if they are in fact sued...

Opinion - Robert Rock: We can drive costs down while improving health care system
Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY - Aug 23, 2009
...I believe there are seven things we can do: 1. Enact tort reform to reduce malpractice insurance costs...

Competing interests collide
Times-Herald Record, Middletown, NY - Aug 23, 2009
...any real reform, Schwalb said, would remove the financial incentive for expensive testing; for example, moving care providers to a straight salary rather than a fee-for-service system, and enacting tort reform that would limit malpractice suits...

Opinion - Richard Meehan: Shielding doctors makes malpractice issue worse
Norwich Bulletin, CT - Aug 22, 2009
...If malpractice litigation is truly the bugaboo that doctors claim, then open up peer review. Let the public decide, armed with all of the truth, not just what the insurance carriers chose to propagandize...

Health care reform silent on malpractice
The Buffalo News, NY - Aug 22, 2009
...Yet in the 1,000 pages of H.R. 3200, the main version of the health reform bill, medical malpractice reform remains the Great Unmentioned. That fact has repelled Republicans and others who maintain that reform will be incomplete and way too expensive without a cap on jury awards in malpractice cases...