CBO: Prepublican health plan would reduce premiums, tri deficit
Washington Examiner, DC - Nov 5, 2009
...The Republican plan does not call for a government insurance plan but rather attempts to reform the system by creating high-risk insurance pools, allowing people to purchase health insurance policies across state lines and instituting medical malpractice reforms...

Budget monitor says G.O.P. bill leaves many uninsured
New York Times, NY - Nov 5, 2009
...But Republicans will certainly find aspects of the cost analysis to brag about. The budget office predicted savings for the federal government of $41 billion over 10 years as a result of provisions to limit costs related to medical malpractice lawsuits...

GOP offers choice on health care
Chicago Tribune, IL - Nov 5, 2009
...They are proposing to do so through market-oriented measures that would limit medical malpractice lawsuits, expand the use of tax-sheltered medical savings accounts...

GOP unveils 219-page health proposal
National Underwriter, Hoboken, NJ - Nov 4, 2009
...Section 305 would allow medical malpractice punitive damages, but only if there was “clear and convincing evidence that [a provider] acted with malicious intent to injure the claimant, or that such person deliberately failed to avoid unnecessary injury that such person knew the claimant was substantially certain to suffer.”...

Health care dispute: Costs of defensive medicine
The Associated Press - Nov 4, 2009
...Doctors say the hidden costs of the tests along with malpractice insurance and lawsuit awards are major drivers behind the soaring cost of care. Trial attorneys say bad medicine, not lawsuits, is to blame...

Opinion - Morton Kondracke: Medical malpractice...a third way
Courier-Express, DuBois, PA - Nov 4, 2009
There's an important task that congressional moderates can perform on health-care reform besides fighting the public insurance option and containing costs: Find a middle ground on medical malpractice...