Dems taunt GOP: Where's your health care plan?
The Associated Press - Oct 2, 2009
...The first two items in this Republican plan would pursue long-standing conservative goals: limit medical malpractice suits filed by "overzealous trial lawyers" and devote more resources to stopping "waste, fraud and abuse" in Medicare and Medicaid...

Editorial: Public options
The Durango Herald, Durango, CO - Oct 2, 2009
...Health-care reform is a big-enough issue to include both tort reform and a public option. Both could be done on a limited basis. They could be closely monitored, controlled and time-limited...

Dems question GOP doctors' opposition to health reform
The Hill, Washington, DC - Oct 1, 2009
...Johnson pinned those Republican physicians' opposition to the plans in Congress on a supply-sided economic philosophy, and accused them of being too beholden to insurance interests. She also suggested that the media should investigate the history of those Republican health professionals' medical malpractice backgrounds...

State's cash crunch isn't as bad as feared
Union Leader, Manchester, NH - Oct 1, 2009
...The 2009 results give the state a cash cushion if it loses its appeal at New Hampshire Supreme Court this month of a lower court ruling that denied it access to $110 million in medical malpractice insurance reserve funds...

HHS will fund $25 million in tort reform projects
American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Oct 1, 2009
...Grants for up to three years and $3 million each will be awarded on a competitive basis to states and health care systems to test models that improve health care quality and patient safety while decreasing medical liability pressures on doctors...