Connecticut's medical community examines multiple challenges in health care
Hartford Courant, Hartford, CT - Sep 8, 2009
...Their wish lists vary, too: Limit malpractice awards. Change the way care is rewarded so that doctors are paid more for spending time with patients instead of just performing procedures...

Health care reform: Remedy, or prescription for failure?
The Daily News, Longview, WA - Sep 8, 2009
...Medical malpractice has driven the cost of health care higher as well. Even medical providers giving free health care can be sued for medical malpractice...

Opinion - Martin Henrichs: Here's checklist for health care reform package
Post-Tribune, Merrillville, IN - Sep 8, 2009
...Tort reform: Doctors pay outrageously high malpractice insurance premiums. Lawyers and insurance companies rake in big money at the expense of the medical profession...

Opinion - Arthur Feldman: Medical reform plan falls short
The Modesto Bee, Modesto, CA - Sep 8, 2009
...Without fixing these spiraling insurance costs and the legal environment that allows large payments in unjust suits, physicians will continue to practice expensive "defensive" medicine or simply leave states that do not enact tort reform...

Editorial: Time to reset health care strategies
Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, CA - Sep 8, 2009
...Put a cap on punitive damages in medical malpractice suits to reduce the prevalence of expensive defensive medicine. Allow individuals as well as employers to deduct the cost of health insurance policies...

Barbour: Tort laws eroded
The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS - Sep 8, 2009
...Barbour's attorneys said this decision "turns back elements of tort reform, particularly the pre-suit notice requirement ... increasing the costs faced by health-care providers and their insurers to defend against medical malpractice actions...

Opinion - Philip K. Howard: Stonewalling legal reform
The Record, Edwardsville, IL - Sep 7, 2009
...Creating a reliable malpractice system with special health courts will not solve all the problems of healthcare, but it will solve some. Reliable law is also a necessary foundation for other changes in the culture of healthcare delivery...