Reid offers doctors a deal
The Hill, Washington, DC - Oct 20, 2009
...Reid also asked that doctors ease up on demands for medical malpractice reform during the upcoming healthcare debate. Democrats have traditionally resisted calls for tort reform, which trial attorneys — a reliable base group — staunchly oppose...

Analysis: Courting doctors in health care battle
The Associated Press - Oct 20, 2009
..."We continue to press for significant medical liability reform because we know that is a very important contributor to unnecessary health care costs," Dr. J. James Rohack, president of the AMA, said in an interview in which he declined repeatedly to say whether the organization had been asked to back off...

Republicans seek health bill change
Reuters - Oct 19, 2009
...Conservatives are seeking changes that would limit medical malpractice liability and do away with any requirement for consumers to buy a health insurance policy, said Sen. Charles Grassley...

Baucus: Public option still on the table
CBS News - Oct 19, 2009
...Baucus said that Republicans and other Democrats will have opportunities to add other amendments on the Senate floor and that he expects someone to introduce an amendment regarding medical malpractice reform.

Med-mal insurers plan a fight to keep antitrust exemption
National Underwriter, Hoboken, NJ - Oct 19, 2009
Medical malpractice insurance trade groups said they are gearing up to fight a proposal to cancel the antitrust exemption they are now afforded under the McCarran-Ferguson Act. The Senate Democratic leader ship has said they will seek the change for medical practice insurers along with a repeal of the exemption for health insurers...