Opinion - Peter Morici: How Obama can win on health care
Statesman Journal, Salem, OR - Sep 1, 2009
...Truly empower nonprofits to lower costs. Require pharmaceutical companies to charge them no more for drugs than paid in Canada, and let nonprofits enroll anyone who agrees to waive malpractice suits...

Reform group takes aim at Calif. trial lawyers
Legal Newsline, Chicago, IL - Sep 1, 2009
..."They are asking our courts to destroy California's model medical liability law, which makes sure medical negligence victims are compensated for their injuries - but limits lawyer-enriching runaway noneconomic damage awards that threaten to close community clinics," Sullivan said...

Opinion - Sherman Joyce: Tort reform could slash nation's health tab
Bradenton Herald, Bradenton, FL - Sep 1, 2009
Though common-sense Americans have repeatedly raised the issue of tort reform while discussing health-care legislation with members of Congress during town hall meetings this month, too many lawmakers and analysts still stubbornly insist that medical liability lawsuits do not contribute significantly to rising health-care costs. These lawmakers and analysts are wrong...

Opinion - Darryl Fagin: Health reform bill is complicated enough without adding low-yield factor
Bradenton Herald, Bradenton, FL - Sep 1, 2009
...“Tort reform” would add one more controversial and peripheral issue to the mix. More important is to keep the focus on equity and affordability, in the face of armies of lobbyists for insurance and pharmaceutical companies who are seeking to shape the final bill to suit their interests, rather than the public interest...

Interview - Tom Baker: Would tort reform lower costs?
New York Times, NY - Aug 31, 2009
Medical tort reform is moving to the fore of the health care debate. On Sunday in The New York Times, former Senator Bill Bradley, Democrat of New Jersey, argued that one way to gain support of both Democrats and Republicans might be to combine universal coverage with tort reform...

Texas Supreme Court cites limits to med-mal law
Southeast Texas Record, Beaumont, TX - Aug 31, 2009
...In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court found that the Lone Star State's medical malpractice reform statute -- known as the Medical Liability and Insurance Improvement Act -- was meant to affect malpractice, not just any accident that occurred at a medical facility...