Plan to tap malpractice funds has providers upset
The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - Sep 25, 2009
...The budget agreement would use about $800 million that had originally been set aside to help pay medical malpractice judgments against doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and nurse midwives...

Opinion - Richard C. Dreyfuss: State's steep pension liability will be felt by Pennsylvania's next generation
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Sep 25, 2009
...Add to this the $1.7 billion unfunded liability of the state's medical malpractice insurance fund, otherwise known as MCARE, plus other forms of debt at the state and local level and a cumulative picture of unaffordable and unsustainable deferred costs clearly emerges...

Opinion - Richard R. Kelley: Let's be reasonable
The Denver Post, CO - Sep 25, 2009
...Medical malpractice lawsuits add a tremendous cost to the nation's health care bill. But thanks to generous campaign contributions by trial lawyers, Congress and state legislatures have repeatedly failed to pass meaningful limits on medical malpractice awards...

Opinion - Darren McKinney: Tort-reform distractions
Chicago Tribune, IL - Sep 25, 2009
...With four of every 10 costly medical malpractice lawsuits filed each year in America being deemed "groundless" according to a 2006 Harvard study, grass-roots demands for the inclusion of common-sense tort reform in health-care legislation now pending in Congress are gaining momentum...

Opinion - Cory Franklin: Malpractice reform is unworkable and unwise
Washington Post, DC - Sep 24, 2009
...Tort reform does address one undeniable consequence of malpractice: the high cost of malpractice insurance. In plaintiff-friendly venues, specialists paying exorbitant insurance rates may move elsewhere, leaving an area without specialists...