The Denver Post, CO - Sep 3, 2009
Question: What do the current health reform bills under consideration say about health care tort reform?...
Tangible and unseen health-care costs
Wall Street Journal, New York, NY - Sep 3, 2009
...This is defensive medicine -- a careful, fretful approach to treating patients, in which doctors authorize tests in part to reduce the risk that they will be sued...
Why Chuck Grassley turned on health-care reform
Time, New York, NY - Sep 3, 2009
...Among the demands that Grassley says he has made that reflect his commitment to conservative orthodoxy: no rationing of health care, no government-run public option to compete with private insurance, no requirement that employers provide health coverage and an insistence that malpractice lawsuits be curbed...
State revenue falls behind
Concord Monitor, Concord, NH - Sep 3, 2009
...But the monthly deficit, combined with a pending lawsuit over a medical malpractice fund that could affect another $110 million, renewed calls by Republican leaders in the state House and Senate to further cut state spending. A group of a dozen legislators held a press conference yesterday to ask Lynch to develop a "Plan B." ...
Republicans call for state special session
The Telegraph, Hudson, NH - Sep 3, 2009
...The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Oct. 15 on a lower court ruling that judged as illegal the state budget making use of $110 million in surplus with the Joint Underwriting Association...
Editorial: An honest exchange needed in health debate
West Central Tribune, Willmar, MN - Sep 3, 2009
...It difficult to get inside doctors’ heads and find out how many tests and procedures they do in order to defend themselves from lawsuits, but the costs of malpractice insurance and court cases can be measured. The highest figure studies have come up with is 3 percent...
Opinion - N.O. Biasotto, DO: Congress and trial lawyers thwarting needed tort reform
The News Journal, Wilmington, DE - Sep 3, 2009
...The cost of our medical liability system is borne by everyone as defensive medicine adds billions to the cost of health care in this country...
Opinion - Dr. William A. Peck: Reducing defensive medical practices is healthy
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO - Sep 3, 2009
...Physicians who fear malpractice litigation might avoid patients with difficult medical problems and patients who seem likely to bring lawsuits. But the big problem is unnecessary, occasionally risky care: specialty referrals, laboratory tests, medical imaging with needless exposure to radiation and hospitalizations...
Opinion - John R. Smith: S. Florida businesses reject 'Obamacare'
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL - Sep 3, 2009
...In addition, the feds have taken malpractice reform off the table to appease trial lawyers, another reason this proposal ultimately will fail. There is no incentive to reduce costs...
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